On the life-sustaining treatment in Korea

Yoon-seong Lee

doi:10.5124/jkma.2012.55.12.1161

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On the Life-Sustaining Treatment in Korea

Journal of the Korean Medical Association

Journal of the Korean Medical Association 2012; 55(12): 1161-1162.

Published online: 18 December 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5124/jkma.2012.55.12.1161

On the life-sustaining treatment in Korea

Yoon-seong Lee, MD

Department of Forensic Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Corresponding author: Yoon-seong Lee, yoonslee@snu.ac.kr

Received 15 November 2012 Accepted 25 November 2012

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