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Sample Closet Medications Are Neither Novel Nor Useful
Kari L. Evans, Steven R. Brown and Gerald W. Smetana
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine July 2013, 26 (4) 380-387; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2013.04.120330
Kari L. Evans
the Department of Family and Community Medicine (SRB), University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix (KLE); the Banner Good Samaritan Family Medicine Residency, Phoenix, AZ (SRB); and the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (GWS).
Steven R. Brown
the Department of Family and Community Medicine (SRB), University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix (KLE); the Banner Good Samaritan Family Medicine Residency, Phoenix, AZ (SRB); and the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (GWS).
Gerald W. Smetana
the Department of Family and Community Medicine (SRB), University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix (KLE); the Banner Good Samaritan Family Medicine Residency, Phoenix, AZ (SRB); and the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (GWS).

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Sample Closet Medications Are Neither Novel Nor Useful
Kari L. Evans, Steven R. Brown, Gerald W. Smetana
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine Jul 2013, 26 (4) 380-387; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2013.04.120330
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