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    Patient Portraits: Vulnerable Populations: Lorna and Eleanor MacDonald
    Seema Marwaha
    CMAJ March 07, 2022 194 (9) E349; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.220233
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    Encounters: Ice chips, death and calm
    Neil Seeman
    CMAJ February 28, 2022 194 (8) E313-E314; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.211400
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    Encounters: An end too soon?
    Daniel Rayson
    CMAJ February 22, 2022 194 (7) E262-E263; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.211748
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    Considerations for assessing frail older adults requesting medical assistance in dying
    Sarah Engelhart, Nathan M. Stall and Kieran L. Quinn
    CMAJ January 17, 2022 194 (2) E51-E53; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.210729
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    Encounters: Through my eyes
    Kay Wu
    CMAJ January 17, 2022 194 (2) E56; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.211724
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    Encounters: Palliation in a pandemic
    Stephanie Sibley, Leslie Buller-Hayes and Graeme Ross
    CMAJ December 20, 2021 193 (50) E1925-E1926; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.211210
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    Five Things to Know About ...: Deactivation of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators
    Darryl Wan and Santabhanu Chakrabarti
    CMAJ June 07, 2021 193 (23) E852; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.210327
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    Encounters: A unique milestone
    Gerald Patrick Ashe
    CMAJ March 08, 2021 193 (10) E345-E346; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.202569
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    Encounters: Epilogue
    Sharon Yeung
    CMAJ March 01, 2021 193 (9) E316-E317; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.202360
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    Frozen grief at the front lines of the pandemic
    Diana Duong
    CMAJ February 08, 2021 193 (6) E223-E224; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1095918

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