The Annual Physical Examination: Needless Ritual or Necessary Routine?
Publication: Annals of Internal Medicine
Volume 136, Number 9
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Annals of Internal Medicine
Volume 136 • Number 9 • 7 May 2002
Pages: 701 - 703
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Published online: 7 May 2002
Published in issue: 7 May 2002
Keywords
- Blood
- Body fluids
- Cancer prevention
- Cancer screening
- Cardiology and cardiovascular diseases
- Cardiovascular anatomy
- Health promotion
- Heart
- Pathology and laboratory medicine
- Prevention, policy, and public health
- Preventive medicine
- Pulmonary medicine
- Research and reporting methods
- Research facilities
- Respiratory physiology
- Respiratory system
- Screening and prevention
- Thorax
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