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PDFLaw, ethics and medicine
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Harm: as indeterminate as ‘best interests’, but useful for triage
- Correspondence to Dr Charles Foster, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6HG, UK; Charles.Foster{at}gtc.ox.ac.uk
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Harm: as indeterminate as ‘best interests’, but useful for triage
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- Accepted November 20, 2015
- First published December 15, 2015.
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October 31, 2016
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