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Erwin B. Montgomery: Medical reasoning: the nature and use of medical knowledge

Oxford University Press, New York, 2019, 249 pp, $90 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-19-091292-5

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Eva, R.R. Erwin B. Montgomery: Medical reasoning: the nature and use of medical knowledge. Theor Med Bioeth 42, 75–80 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-021-09543-2

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