The surgeon's work in transition: should surgeons spend more time outside the hospital? Con
Joseph S Coselli1, Lori D Conklin
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|April 6, 2004
Abstract
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