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  1. the Task Force on Doctor and Patient of the Society of General Internal Medicine, Washington, DC

    Penelope R. Williamson ScD, David E. Kern MD, MPH & L. Randol Barker MD, ScM

  2. the Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Francis Scott Key Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland

    Penelope R. Williamson ScD, David E. Kern MD, MPH & L. Randol Barker MD, ScM

  3. the Department of Medicine, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

    Robert C. Smith MD & Ruth B. Hoppe MD

  4. the Division of Primary Care, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York

    Mack Lipkin Jr. MD

  5. New York and St. Vincent’s Hospital and University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts

    James Florek MD

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Williamson, P.R., Smith, R.C., Kern, D.E. et al. The medical interview and psychosocial aspects of medicine. J Gen Intern Med 7, 235–242 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02598023

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