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17 - The Politics of Office-Based Anesthesia

from PART III - OTHER CONSIDERATIONS FOR ANESTHESIA IN COSMETIC SURGERY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 August 2009

David Barinholtz M.D.
Affiliation:
President and CEO Mobile Anesthesiologists, LLC, Chicago, IL
Barry Friedberg
Affiliation:
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
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Print publication year: 2007

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