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[Improving communication skills is possible: "clinical" experience and scientific assessment]

F Stiefel1, I Rousselle, J N Despland

  • 1Service de psychiatrie de liaison, Departement de psychiatrie adulte, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne. frederic.stiefel@chuv.ch

Revue Medicale Suisse
|March 9, 2006
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