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Our Image During a recent discussion on one of the fashionable ethical problems of our time, a lawyer colleague said father vehemently that 'he didn't see why society should be dictated to by doctors'. I refrained from the immediate rejoinder which came to my mind about that being infinitely preferable to being dictated to by lawyers, because I did not think it would be helpful, and am not so c...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 1860
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(02)53408-5