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Why do doctors use treatments that do not work?
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BMJ
2004;328:474
- Arrhythmias
- Cardiovascular medicine
- Clinical trials (epidemiology)
- Coma and raised intracranial pressure
- Diabetes
- Drugs: cardiovascular system
- Endocrinology
- Epidemiologic studies
- Epidemiology
- Gastroenterology
- Ischaemic heart disease
- Liver disease
- Malnutrition
- Medical education
- Metabolic disorders
- Neurology
- Nutrition and metabolism
- Pain (neurology)
- Psychiatry
- Psychotic disorders (incl schizophrenia)
- Undergraduate
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