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Prerequisite Interviewing Skills:

“Your patient’s symptoms are the gold of medical interviewing.” F. Platt and G. Gordon

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    The proposed plan for building the hpi together is adapted from Lin et al. [3].

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Binder, J. (2013). History of Present Illness. In: Primary Care Interviewing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7224-7_9

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