A comparison of the willingness of resident and attending physicians to comply with the requests of patients at the end of life.

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Published in J Gen Intern Med on March 20, 2014

Authors

John M Thomas1, John R O'Leary, Terri R Fried

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, 337 Crown Street, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA, John.thomas@yale.edu.

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