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The Need for Expanding Physician Language Diversity is Too Great to be Left to Chance

Andrea Anderson
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine January 2022, 35 (1) 200-202; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2022.01.210456
Andrea Anderson
School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052 (AA).
MD, FAAFP
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