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Ancestral versions of this paper were presented at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, March 5, 1981, at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, March 11, 1981, and at St. Vincent's Hospital, New York City, April 16, 1981.

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Tristram Engelhardt, H. Clinical judgment. Metamedicine 2, 301–317 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00882077

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