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J Med Ethics. 1975 July; 1(2): 81–84.
PMCID: PMC1154460
Why make people patients?
Marshall Marinker
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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