Disaster management: Who’s in charge?

Sharon Einav, MD; William P. Schecter, MD, FACS

doi:10.5055/ajdm.2006.0004

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Sharon Einav, MD
William P. Schecter, MD, FACS

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https://doi.org/10.5055/ajdm.2006.0004

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Sharon Einav, MD

Lecturer, Intensive Care Physician, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, the Faculty of Health Sciences of the den Gurion University, Jerusalem, Israel.

William P. Schecter, MD, FACS

Professor of Clinical Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, California; Chief of Surgery, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California.

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Disaster management: Who’s in charge?

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