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Copyright © 1984 by David Mendel

Introduction copyright © 2013 by Jerome Groopman

Preface to the 2013 Edition copyright © 2013 by Jonathan Hazell

All rights reserved.

Cover image: Lisa Nilsson, Male Torso, 2010; courtesy of the artist

Cover design: Katy Homans

The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier printing as follows:

 Proper doctoring : a book for patients and their doctors / by David Mendel ; introduction by Jerome Groopman.

p. ; cm. — (New York Review Books classics)

 Reprint. Originally published: Berlin : Springer-Verlag, 1984.

 Includes index.

 ISBN 978-1-59017-621-4 (pbk.)

 I. Title. II. Series: New York Review Books classics.

 [DNLM: 1. Physician–Patient Relations. W 62]

 R727.3

 616—dc23

2013015560

eISBN 978-1-59017-643-6

v1.0

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