Lewis A. Conner Memorial Lecture. Choices that must not be made.
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Lewis A. Conner Memorial Lecture. Choices that must not be made.
Throughout our professional lifetimes, we are conditioned by the need to choose; among careers, among treatments for our patients, among health habits and lifestyles. After detailing the extent to which a choice-making orientation has dominated our lives, our society, our health system, our science, this paper describes areas in which it is crucial that choices not be made. These include the ch...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.66.3.481