Rationing failure. The ethical lessons of the retransplantation of scarce vital organs.

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Published in JAMA on November 24, 1993

Authors

P A Ubel1, R M Arnold, A L Caplan

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15261.

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