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. 2007 Oct;20(4):418-22.
doi: 10.1080/08998280.2007.11928337.

Preemption, tort reform, and pharmaceutical claims: Part one: Who will become the pharmaceutical industry's insurers (or is it prescribing physicians and we do not know it?)

Russell G Thornton  1
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Preemption, tort reform, and pharmaceutical claims: Part one: Who will become the pharmaceutical industry's insurers (or is it prescribing physicians and we do not know it?)

Russell G Thornton. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2007 Oct.
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