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Introduction—Why Me?

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I come by my interest in Healthcare honestly—since, as a child, I spent a lot of my time in the hospital.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

—Niels Bohr.

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Putrino, D. (2018). Introduction—Why Me?. In: Hacking Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71619-0_1

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