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Faden, supra note 15.

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Lane v. Candura. 6 Mass. App. 377,376 N.E.2d 1232 (1978).

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Perl M. Shelp E.E. , “Psychiatric consultation masking moral dilemmas in medicine”, N Engl J Med 1982, 307:618–621; Appelbaum, supra notes 1 and 23.

Id., Perl.

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