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Throughout this book I repeatedly refer to the errors of medicine — the absurd theories, the futile and damaging treatments, the excessive investigations, the failure to look at the patient as a person, and the rest. In the present chapter I shall look at these errors at a deeper level, in the hope of discovering why we have made so many of them.
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Todd, J.W. (1981). The Errors of Medicine. In: The State of Medicine. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7245-5_8
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