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Emergency medicine and environmental activism

Geoff Couser1

  • 1Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Hobart Hospital, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. gcouser@utas.edu.au

Emergency Medicine Australasia : EMA
|November 13, 2004
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