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Book Review Edited by David E. Balk

Physician as patient – seeking a cure

A review of Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope into Action by David Fajgenbaum. New York: Ballantine Books, 2019. 256 pp. (ISBN: 976-8-413-79962-5). $27.00 (Ebook). (ISBN: 978-1-524-79961-8. $27.00 (hard cover), Reviewed by Debra Oryzysyn.

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