Medicine, Politics, and the English Language

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Editorial

Richard L Kravitz. J Gen Intern Med. 2017 Aug.

. 2017 Aug;32(8):853-854.

doi: 10.1007/s11606-017-4081-3.

¹ Division of General Medicine, University of California Davis, 4150 V. Street, Suite 2400 PSSB, Sacramento, CA, 95817, USA. rlkravitz@ucdavis.edu.

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