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Medical Student and Resident Physician Marriages

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The problems that beset married medical students and residents are more similar than different; hence, their common concerns form the bulk of this chapter. I will discuss problems that are unique to each group at the end of this chapter.

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Myers, M.F. (1994). Medical Student and Resident Physician Marriages. In: Doctors’ Marriages. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1007-3_1

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