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Toward Trusting Therapeutic Relationships — In Favor of the Annual Physical

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  • Allan H. Goroll, M.D.

Continued enthusiasm for annual physicals may be driven by the desire or need to establish and maintain a close, trusting relationship with one's personal physician. We could preserve and enhance the annual visit's benefits by turning it into an annual health review.

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From the Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

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