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The John P. McGovern Award Lecture in the Medical Humanities, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, May 18, 1983. (Used with permission of the University of Texas Medical Branch.)

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Knight, J.A. William Osler's call to ministry and medicine. J Med Hum 7, 4–16 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01115174

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