Chronic illness: the burden and the dream

Chew, Mabel; Van Der Weyden, Martin B

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05521.x

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“Illness is the night side of life . . . Every one who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick”. — Susan Sontag

The Medical Journal of Australia, Sydney, NSW.

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