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Responding to religious patients: why physicians have no business doing theology
- Correspondence to Dr Ryan K Hubbard, Social Sciences, Gulf Coast State College, Panama City 32401-1041, USA; rhubbard2{at}gulfcoast.edu
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Responding to religious patients: why physicians have no business doing theology
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- Received March 13, 2019
- Revised April 16, 2019
- Accepted May 7, 2019
- First published June 20, 2019.
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October 25, 2019
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