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Checking the right boxes, but failing the patient.
Checking the right boxes, but failing the patient. Rifkin D. New York Times. November 16, 2009;Science Desk:5.
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December 2, 2009
Rifkin D. New York Times. November 16, 2009;Science Desk:5.
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