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. 1975 Jul;1(2):81-4.
doi: 10.1136/jme.1.2.81.

Why make people patients?

M Marinker

Why make people patients?

M Marinker. J Med Ethics. 1975 Jul.

Abstract

People confront their doctors with three modes of unhealth - disease, illness and sickness. Each is discussed, and the question is asked and answered as to why in this situation people wish to become patients.

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