Abstract
A new scheme of organizing the family physician's approach to office patients is presented. This scheme is designed to help physicians understand the unpredictability of the course of disease. Its use might help avoid some of the failures of therapy that frequently occur despite quality clinical medicine. Six questions are directed at defining the characteristics of the host as well as the details of the disease.
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