To the Editor: A letter that I submitted to the Journal waspublished in the January 25 issue.1 Because there has been concernabout the provenance and authorship of that letter, I requestthat it be retracted.
Hadi Meeran Hussain, M.B., B.S. Military Hospital Rawalpindi46000, Pakistan
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