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. 2013 Dec 12;8:15–24. doi: 10.2147/PPA.S55022

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The three inventions of evidence based medicine, patient education, and autonomy.

Notes: The dotted line suggests that there may be a conflict between, on the one hand, evidence based medicine and patient education, and on the other hand, the introduction in medicine of the principle of autonomy. Note that the three inventions were done almost simultaneously.