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Family Medicine and Obstetrics: Let's Stop Pretending

Richard A. Young and R. Levi Sundermeyer
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine May 2018, 31 (3) 328-331; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2018.03.180087

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