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Doctors and nurses are the only people who possibly can alter the conditions of patient care.
Copyright © 1970 by Centesis Corporation
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States of America by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
All rights reserved, which includes the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever except as provided by the U.S. Copyright Law. For information address Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 201 East 50th Street, New York, New York 10022.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 77-106624 ISBN 0-345-35464-8
This edition published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Excerpts appeared in Atlantic magazine, February 1970. A condensed version appeared in the Ladies’ Home Journal, July 1970. The serialized version appeared in Register & Tribune Syndicate, 1970.
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