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How Should Complementary Practitioners and Physicians Communicate? A Cross-Sectional Study from Israel

Eran Ben-Arye, Moshe Scharf and Moshe Frenkel
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2007, 20 (6) 565-571; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2007.06.070119
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