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When conventional medical providers recommend unconventional medicine: results of a national study

Aditi Nerurkar1, Gloria Yeh, Roger B Davis

  • 1Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Aditi_Nerurkar@hms.harvard.edu

Archives of Internal Medicine
|May 11, 2011
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