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Yes: Visiting the patient helps to fulfill obligations of fairness and to avoid paternalism

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Pruitt, R.L. Yes: Visiting the patient helps to fulfill obligations of fairness and to avoid paternalism. HEC Forum 3, 23–25 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00057840

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