Cut jargon, save the NHS
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Bring Hippocrates to the people and save the NHS.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0141-0768,1758-1095
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.2011.11k020