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Climate Change: How Will Family Physicians Rise to the Challenge?

Audrey Hertenstein Perez
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine January 2024, 37 (1) 4-6; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2022.220013R1
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