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Current Problems of Clinical Ethics: Confidentiality and End-of-Life Decisions – Is Silence Always Golden?

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  1. Center for Medical Ethics at the Markus-Hospital, Wilhelm-Epstein-Str. 2, D-60431, Frankfurt/M., Germany

    Kurt W. Schmidt

  2. Institut für Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Glückstrasse 10, D-91054, Erlangen, Germany

    Andreas Frewer

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Schmidt, K.W., Frewer, A. Current Problems of Clinical Ethics: Confidentiality and End-of-Life Decisions – Is Silence Always Golden?. HEC Forum 19, 273–276 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10730-007-9052-3

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