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The WikiDoc Living Textbook of Geriatrics

Editors-In-Chief of Geriatrics: Lewis Lipsitz, M.D., Chief of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Geriatric Medicine; Angela Botts, M.D., Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Geriatric Medicine

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