Poison pen letters, due process, and medical schoolsʼ policies toward anonymous correspondence that disparages medical school faculty
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عنوان ژورنال: Academic Medicine
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1040-2446
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199805000-00023