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Medicine, race, and the right to choose

This complexity has been further confused by reporting in the media which framed the decision as a choice between conventional biomedicine and traditional Aboriginal healing.

Andrew Lodge 
Jan 29th, 2015
Medicine, race, and the right to choose. Makayla Sault, leukemia.
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Editor's note February 1: This story is currently under revision due to updates.

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