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The Ethical Health Lawyer: Ethics in the Practice of Health Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Joan H. Krause  and
Richard S. Saver
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , Winter 2004 , pp. 766 - 769
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2004

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