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Hot Lights and Cold Steel: Cultural and Political Toolkits for Practice Change in Surgery

Katherine C. Kellogg
Katherine C. Kellogg
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MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
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Katherine C. Kellogg

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MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142

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Published Online:20 Jul 2010https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1100.0539

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