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RESEARCH ARTICLE (Open Access)

General practice: balancing business and care

Fiona Doolan-Noble 1 , Carol Atmore 1 , Richard Greatbanks 2
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1 Department of General Practice and Rural Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, New Zealand

2 Department of Management, Otago Business School, New Zealand

Correspondence to: Fiona Doolan-Noble, Department of General Practice and Rural Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, New Zealand. Email: fiona.doolan-noble@otago.ac.nz

Journal of Primary Health Care 8(3) 193-195 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC15912
Published: 27 September 2016

Journal Compilation © Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2016.
This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.


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