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Applying the Concept of Futility at the Bedside

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2009

Kate Christensen
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , Summer 1992 , pp. 242 - 248
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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