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This book is intended to help physicians achieve their full potential - to become wise physicians and to be able to apply wisdom in their daily practice - much like the doctor described above by LaCombe.
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Taylor, R.B. (2010). Medical Wisdom in the Twenty-First Century. In: Medical Wisdom and Doctoring. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5521-0_1
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