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L B McCullough¹, J W Jones

¹Centre for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. mccullou@bcm.tmc.edu

The British Journal of Surgery

|September 5, 2001

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