Periodic Health Examination
- 12 March 1959
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 260 (11) , 559-560
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195903122601111
Abstract
Sometimes, the lesson that is hidden in a single clinical case allows construction of a hypothesis that can be tested subsequently by a planned research study of many persons. Ordinarily, knowledge of the details of a particular case history is limited, even among the medical profession, but in a prominent person — a president, a king or an engineer who takes his train through an open drawbridge — what would otherwise be regarded as a privileged communication becomes a matter of public knowledge. With these thoughts in mind selected features of the cases of two prominent persons are reviewed to . . .Keywords
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