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To what extent can practitioners and promoters of CAM be relied upon to practice or recommend safe and effective treatments? This is the question that we shall consider in this chapter.
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Ernst, E., Smith, K. (2018). Clinical Competence. In: More Harm than Good?. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69941-7_1
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