“Great Expectations”: Reflections on Possible Analogies between our Patients and the Characters of Charles Dickens

Giuseppe Milano

doi:10.1055/s-0037-1607230

Joints, Inhaltsverzeichnis

CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Joints 2017; 05(03): 131-132
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1607230

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Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

“Great Expectations”: Reflections on Possible Analogies between our Patients and the Characters of Charles Dickens

Giuseppe Milano

¹Department of Orthopaedics, Catholic University, Service of Shoulder Surgery, Agostino Gemelli University Hospital, Rome, Italy

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