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Editorial: Does the Training in Geriatrics Affect a Doctor's Decision to Care for the Elderly?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2010

Paule Lebel
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Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , Fall/automne 1991 , pp. 207 - 211
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Copyright © Canadian Association on Gerontology 1991

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