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. 2005 Apr;22(4):286–293. doi: 10.1136/emj.2004.020636

For Debate...: A license to practise pre-hospital and retrieval medicine

R Mackenzie 1, D Bevan 1
PMCID: PMC1726725  PMID: 15788836

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