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Commentary

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2017)

Québec’s emergency room overcrowding and long wait times: don’t apply “Band-Aids”, treat the underlying disease!

DOI
https://doi.org/10.26443/mjm.v15i1.90
Submitted
July 18, 2017
Published
2017-08-05

Abstract

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