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The electrocardiograph has been in general employment for so many years, spanning the careers of almost all of us, that it may appear solely a descriptive exercise to analyze the actualities of electrocardiographic practice. Yet the state of things as they are is not necessarily the same as they might be, and it may be useful to survey electrocardiography as it is being practiced to derive some lessons. This, then, is quite apart from sophisticated techniques such as vectorcardiography, high speed wave study, computer analysis, telemetry, etc.; rather we are concerned with a consideration of material as it presents to us in our daily underwriting decisions.
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Gubner, R.S. (1969). Electrocardiographic practice in the United States. In: Annals of Life Insurance Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85620-4_5
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