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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Kevin Conrad (ed.)Absolute Hospital Medicine Review10.1007/978-3-319-23748-0_1 Inpatient Medicine Laura Bateman1 and Kevin Conrad2 (1) Internal Medicine Department, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, 1521 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, 70121, LA, USA (2) Department…
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