The old Atlantic City meetings.
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Where once the annual meeting of the American Federation for Clinical Research, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the Association of American Physicians could unite the whole of clinical investigation, now stand many organizations and meetings catering to specialized fields, and the cohering effect of the Atlantic City meetings has not since been duplicated.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of clinical investigation
دوره 118 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008