Being Mortal - Atul Gawande
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Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine, and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande.
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عنوان ژورنال: Dalhousie Medical Journal
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1488-9994
DOI: 10.15273/dmj.vol42no1.6439