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Commentary: Treating Ambiguity in the Clinical Context: Is what you hear the doctor say what the doctor means?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2019

VICKI XAFIS  and
DOMINIC WILKINSON
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Symposium: New Challenges to Clinical Communication in Serious Illness
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , July 2019 , pp. 422 - 432
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