Mistaking an Auto-injector for a Ballpoint Pen.

Intern Med

Department of Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Showa University, Japan.

Published: September 2020

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7516324PMC
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