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How Hospital Design Can Promote Better Patient Outcomes

  |  Issue: December 2016  |  

Simon M. Helfgott, MD, is associate professor of medicine in the Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

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