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Author’s Reply to Lipman: ‘Correct Wilderness Medicine Definitions and their Impact on Care’

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (117), Sacramento VA Medical Center, 10535 Hospital Way, Sacramento, CA, 95655-1200, USA

    Martin D. Hoffman

  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA

    Jeremy Joslin

  3. Department of Veterans Affairs, Northern California Health Care System, University of California Davis Medical Center , Sacramento, CA , USA

    Martin D. Hoffman

  4. St. John of God Murdoch Hospital, University of Notre Dame, Murdoch, WA, Australia

    Ian R. Rogers

  5. Department of Family Medicine, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA, USA

    Chad A. Asplund

  6. Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    William O. Roberts

  7. Division of Cardiology, Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA

    Benjamin D. Levine

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Joslin, J., Hoffman, M.D., Rogers, I.R. et al. Author’s Reply to Lipman: ‘Correct Wilderness Medicine Definitions and their Impact on Care’. Sports Med 45, 603–604 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-014-0295-2

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