Disaster medicine: status, roles, responsibilities, and needs.
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Twas a dangerous cliff, they freely confessed, Though to walk near its crest was so pleasant, But, over its terrible edge there had slipped A duke and full many a peasant; So the people said something would have to be done, But their projects did not at all tally. Some said: "Put a fence round the edge of the cliff." Others said: An ambulance down in the valley." Joseph Malines Prevention and Cure Virginia Medical Bulletin
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Prehospital and disaster medicine
دوره 17 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002