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Why make people patients?
  1. Marshall Marinker
  1. Department of Community Medicine, University of Leicester

    Abstract

    People confront their doctors with three modes of unhealth - disease, illness and sickness. Each is discussed, and the question is asked and answered as to why in this situation people wish to become patients.

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