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Research Article| Volume 75, ISSUE 4, P555-560, October 1983

The nature of illness and diagnosis

  • W.Jeffrey Fessel
    Correspondence
    Requests for reprints should be addressed to Dr. W. Jeffrey Fessel, Department of Medicine, Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center, 2200 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco, California 94115.
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    Dr. Fessel is Chief, Department of Medicine, Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center, San Francisco U.S.A.

    Dr. Fessel is Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco U.S.A.

    Dr. Fessel is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California U.S.A.
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    1 From the Department of Medicine, Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center, San Francisco, California.
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