The brave new world revealed: wrestling with reality, rationing, and rationality.

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Published in Semin Respir Crit Care Med on August 08, 2012

Authors

Constantine A Manthous1, Douglas B White, Shannon S Carson

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. manthous@sbcglobal.net

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