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“Building through the Grief”: Vicarious Trauma in a Group of Inner-City Family Physicians

Susan Woolhouse, Judith Belle Brown and Amardeep Thind
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2012, 25 (6) 840-846; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2012.06.120066
Susan Woolhouse
From the South Riverdale Community Health Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (SW); the Department of Family Medicine, The Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry and the School of Social Work, King's University College (JBB); and the Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry (AT), The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
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Judith Belle Brown
From the South Riverdale Community Health Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (SW); the Department of Family Medicine, The Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry and the School of Social Work, King's University College (JBB); and the Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry (AT), The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
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Amardeep Thind
From the South Riverdale Community Health Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (SW); the Department of Family Medicine, The Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry and the School of Social Work, King's University College (JBB); and the Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry (AT), The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
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The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Nov 2012, 25 (6) 840-846; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2012.06.120066

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Susan Woolhouse, Judith Belle Brown, Amardeep Thind
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Nov 2012, 25 (6) 840-846; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2012.06.120066
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