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Time and the patient-physician relationship

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  1. Department of Medicine, University of Washington, 4245 Roosevelt Way NE, Box 354760, 98105, Seattle, WA

    David C. Dugdale MD

  2. Highland Hospital Primary Care Institute and Departments of Family Medicine and Psychiatry, University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.

    Ronald Epstein MD

  3. Division of General Internal Medicine and Program in Medical Ethics, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Calif

    Steven Z. Pantilat MD

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Dr. Epstein is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar.

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Dugdale, D.C., Epstein, R. & Pantilat, S.Z. Time and the patient-physician relationship. J GEN INTERN MED 14 (Suppl 1), S34–S40 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1525-1497.1999.00263.x

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