Perspectives on being a wilderness physician: is wilderness medicine more than a special body of knowledge?
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عنوان ژورنال: Wilderness & Environmental Medicine
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1080-6032
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(2001)012[0165:pobawp]2.0.co;2