Editorials
Volume 171 - Issue 11

Doctors and the "environment"

Med J Aust 1999; 171 (11): 576-577.
Published online: 6 December 1999
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Editorial

Doctors and the "environment"

A "call to arms" for medical practitioners in Australia

Planet Earth

MJA 1999; 171: 576-577

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