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From: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients | Date: August 1, 2002| Author: Buttram, Harold | Copyright information

(A Review of Medical-Legal Issues Surrounding the Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome)

Medical-Legal Issues

During years of practice in the field of environmental medicine I have seen many patients that I believe were made ill by airborne chemical exposures in the workplace and who consequently developed the illness known as multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS). I have often testified in their behalf. The following paper has been written with two purposes: ...

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