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. 1999 Jan 30;318(7179):301.

The difference

PMCID: PMC1114780  PMID: 9924058

The consultant is distinguished from the general practitioner less by the subtlety of his treatment than by the strength of conviction with which he executes it.

Footnotes

Thomas McKeown, The role of medicine. Dream, mirage or nemesis? (1979)

Submitted by Nicholas Steel, health services research fellow, University of East Anglia


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