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RESEARCH ARTICLE (Open Access)

Managing the hope for a miracle: a reflection

Shomel Gauznabi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0155-1037 1 *
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1 Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

* Correspondence to: shomel.gauznabi@auckland.ac.nz

Handling Editor: Felicity Goodyear-Smith

Journal of Primary Health Care 14(3) 280-282 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC22070
Published: 12 September 2022

© 2022 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

Keywords: end of life care, palliative care, religion, religious literacy, spirituality.


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