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Physician Conceptions of Responsibility to Individual Patients and Distributive Justice in Health Care

Mary Catherine Beach, Lisa S. Meredith, Jodi Halpern, Kenneth B. Wells and Daniel E. Ford
The Annals of Family Medicine January 2005, 3 (1) 53-59; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.257
Mary Catherine Beach
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vol. 3 no. 1 53-59
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.257
PubMed 
15671191

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The Annals of Family Medicine
Print ISSN 
1544-1709
Online ISSN 
1544-1717
History 
  • Received for publication September 25, 2003
  • Revision received May 19, 2004
  • Accepted for publication May 29, 2004
  • Published online January 25, 2005.

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  1. Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH1,2,
  2. Lisa S. Meredith, PhD3,
  3. Jodi Halpern, MD, PhD4,
  4. Kenneth B. Wells, MD, MPH3,5 and
  5. Daniel E. Ford, MD, MPH1,2
  1. 1Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md
  2. 2Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Md
  3. 3RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif
  4. 4Department of Community Health and Human Development, University of California, Berkeley, Calif
  5. 5Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, Calif
  1. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH , Division of General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 2024 East Monument Street, Suite 2-500, Baltimore, MD 21287, mcbeach{at}jhmi.edu
  1. Portions of this work were presented at the annual meeting of the Society for General Internal Medicine, Date, 2002, Atlanta, Georgia.

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