Journal of General Internal Medicine

, Volume 27, Issue 1, pp 125–128 | Cite as

Against All Odds

  • Nobuyoshi Minemura
  • Gurpreet Dhaliwal
  • Lawrence M. TierneyJr.
Clinical Practice: Exercises in Clinical Reasoning
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clinical reasoning 
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Acknowledgments

Dr. Nobuyoshi Minemura was supported in part by a grant from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare and by a scholarship from St. Luke's Life Science Institute. The authors thank Dr. David Daikh and Dr. Harry Lampiris for their thoughtful review of the manuscript.

Conflict of Interest

None disclosed.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Nobuyoshi Minemura
    • 1
  • Gurpreet Dhaliwal
    • 2
  • Lawrence M. TierneyJr.
    • 2
  1. 1.Division of Internal MedicineNational Sanatorium Tama-ZenshoenHigashimurayama-shiJapan
  2. 2.Department of MedicineUniversity of California, San Francisco and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical CenterSan FranciscoUSA

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