EDITORIAL
Location, allocation, and survival: The wise have stepped where others feared to tread; it is now time to follow
Jody C. Olson,
Corresponding Author
Jody C. Olson
Divisions of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
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Jody C. Olson, Divisions of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, 4000 Cambridge Street; MS 1023, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this author Richard K. Gilroy,
Richard K. Gilroy
Division of Hepatology and Liver Transplantation, Intermountain Health Care, Murray, Utah, USA
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Jody C. Olson,
Corresponding Author
Jody C. Olson
Divisions of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
Correspondence
Jody C. Olson, Divisions of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, 4000 Cambridge Street; MS 1023, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this author Richard K. Gilroy,
Richard K. Gilroy
Division of Hepatology and Liver Transplantation, Intermountain Health Care, Murray, Utah, USA
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First published: 03 June 2022
No abstract is available for this article.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Richard K. Gilroy is on the speakers’ bureau for Salix and AbbVie. He received grants from Gilead. Jody C. Olson consults for Mallinckrodt.
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