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Doctors' specialist knowledge has symbolic significance; in many cases, power is not so much seized by doctors as conferred by society.
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- BALINT, M.
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- The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
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- Elsevier BV
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- 1957-11
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- 234
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- 4
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- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Medicine, History, and Philosophy
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- Keywords
- physician-patient relationship, illness, physician role, patient experience
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