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The advent of the ‘unpatients’

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Predictive diagnosis by molecular methods will change the scientific basis of prognostics. At the same time, it will change the ethical dimensions of the relation among patients, their doctors and other providers of care.

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  1. Department of Medical History and Ethics, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Box 357120, Seattle, Washington, 98195-7120, USA

    Albert R. Jonsen & Sharon J. Durfy

  2. Department of Medicine, Women's Health Care Center, University of Washington, Box 35765, Seattle, Washington, 98195-7120, USA

    Wylie Burke

  3. Departments of Medicine and Genetics, University of Washington, Box 356423, Seattle, Washington, 98195-7120, USA

    Arno G. Motulsky

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