Women's Health Issues
Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 39-44 , January 2005

Willing and able? Provision of medication for abortion by future internists

  • Eleanor Bimla Schwarz, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, General Internal Medicine Section, University of California, San Francisco, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Eleanor Bimla Schwarz, MD, MS, Clinical Instructor and Research Fellow, University of California, San Francisco, General Internal Medicine Section (111a1), VA Medical Center, 4150 Clement St, San Francisco, CA 94121.
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  • Anne Luetkemeyer, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, University of California, San Francisco, California
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  • Diana Greene Foster, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California
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  • Tracy A. Weitz, MPA

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California
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  • Deborah Lindes, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California
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  • Felicia H. Stewart, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California

Received 14 July 2004 ,Revised 20 August 2004 ,Accepted 31 August 2004.

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PII: S1049-3867(04)00085-4

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2004.08.011

Women's Health Issues
Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 39-44 , January 2005

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