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The “relative value units” of a clinical encounter
Engineering: large cogs meshing together, and diagrams of epicycloid curves. Colour lithograph by Stanislas Petit, ca. 1905. An engineering illustration depicting large cogs meshing together and diagrams of epicycloid curves. Color lithograph, circa 1905, by Stanislas Petit, via Wellcome Collection.

Guernica Sketches are short, poetic interpretations of a theme. This year, the theme is medicine.

0800: Mr. Apple says he has a sister in medicine who always advised him to take

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