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. 2020 Aug;107(9):1089-1090.
doi: 10.1002/bjs.11638. Epub 2020 Apr 20.

Surgical ethics during a pandemic: moving into the unknown?

J Ives  1 , R Huxtable  1
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Surgical ethics during a pandemic: moving into the unknown?

J Ives et al. Br J Surg. 2020 Aug.
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