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Doctor-Patient Relationship

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Our century is one of the most turbulent periods of history. I would mention only the two world wars, the collapse of four Dynasties — Romanof, Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Savoy — and the creation of a new Dynasty, that of Joan Collins — alias Alexis. During these years, medicine, too, has been revolutionized.

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Gardikas, O. (1987). Doctor-Patient Relationship. In: Christodoulou, G.N. (eds) Psychosomatic Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5454-3_3

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