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. 2011 Nov 8;183(16):1829-30.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.109-3995. Epub 2011 Oct 3.

Back to black bag and horse-and-buggy medicine

Erin Walkinshaw

Back to black bag and horse-and-buggy medicine

Erin Walkinshaw. CMAJ. .
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“There’s the usually cited idea that the doctor with the black bag and the horse and buggy is now returning and it’s not so much about that as it is about a better way of meeting the needs of a group of patients that we refer to as frail,” says Dr. John Sloan, a family physician in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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