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. 2002 Mar;176(2):141-3.

Why the disease-based model of medicine fails our patients

Alexander R Green  1 , J Emilio Carrillo, Joseph R Betancourt
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Why the disease-based model of medicine fails our patients

Alexander R Green et al. West J Med. 2002 Mar.
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