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’They Don’t Ask Me So I Don’t Tell Them’: Patient-Clinician Communication About Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Medicine

Brian M. Shelley, Andrew L. Sussman, Robert L. Williams, Alissa R. Segal, Benjamin F. Crabtree and ; on behalf of the Rios Net Clinicians
The Annals of Family Medicine March 2009, 7 (2) 139-147; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.947
Brian M. Shelley
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