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Mandatory HIV screening for emergency physicians in Ontario: protecting the public or alarming them?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2015

Marco L.A. Sivilotti
Marco L.A. Sivilotti*
Affiliation:
Departments of Emergency Medicine and Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON
*
Department of Emergency Medicine, Queen's University, 76 Stuart Street, Kingston, ON K7L 2V7; [email protected]

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Type
Editorial/Commentary
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , May 2013 , pp. 127 - 129
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2013

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