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The Word “Accident”: No Chance, No Error, No Destinya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Jorge Neira  and
Laura Bosque
Jorge Neira*
Affiliation:
Fellow, American College of Critical Care Medicine; Corresponding Fellow, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma; Chair, Trauma & Emergency Program; Secretary of Health, Buenos Aires City Government; Chief, UCI Sanatorio de la Trinidad, Buenos Aires; ATLS, ACLS, FCCS Instructor, Member, Committee on Trauma, Argentine Chapter, American College of Surgeons, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Laura Bosque
Affiliation:
Licensed in Psychology, Chair, Injury Prevention Committee, Argentine Society for the Medicine and Surgery of Trauma (SAMCT) Buenos Aires, Argentina
*
jan@datamar.com.ar
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Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , September 2004 , pp. 188 - 189
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2004

Footnotes

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Prevention Task Force Director: Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. Available at http://www.east.org. Accessed 30 June 2004.

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