Non-specific symptoms as clues to changes in emotional well-being.

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Published in BMC Fam Pract on July 26, 2011

Authors

Andre Matalon1, Andy Kotliroff, Gari Blumberg, John Yaphe, Eliezer Kitai

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 69978, Israel.

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