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The power of negative thinking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Jacques Lee
Jacques Lee*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., and Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Sunnybrook and Women’s Research Institute, Toronto, Ont.; EM Advances section, CJEM
*
Emergency Medicine Research Program, Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Ave., BG-04, Toronto ON M4N 3M5

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Commentary • Commentaire
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 6 , Issue 5 , September 2004 , pp. 359 - 361
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Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2004

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