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. 1990 Jan;152(1):57–61.

Physician Risk and Responsibility in the HIV Epidemic

Molly Cooke
PMCID: PMC1002255  PMID: 2309474

Abstract

These discussions are selected from the weekly staff conferences in the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Taken from transcriptions, they are prepared by Homer A. Boushey, MD, Professor of Medicine, under the direction of Lloyd H. Smith, Jr, MD, Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean in the School of Medicine. Requests for reprints should be sent to the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94143.

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