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Patients, doctors and the good life (for the patient)
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Correction notice This article has been corrected since it was published Online First. The provenance and peer review statement has been corrected.
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↵i According to Kant in The Metaphysics of Morals,4 our capacity to make a choice, ‘to set ends,’ is what is distinctively human (separating Menschheit from Tierheit).
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