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I Asked My Patients to Tell Me Anything About Themselves. This Is What They Said.

HUMANIZING

Doctors can rattle of patients’ blood counts and electrolyte stats in seconds. But ask them about their patients’ lives, and they’ll likely come up blank.

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Name, age, sex, medical record number. These are the identifiers with which medical professionals in hospitals across the country initially meet their patients.

Shortly thereafter, these data

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