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To the Editor: Redelmeier et al. (May 21 issue)¹ write, "Mother Nature has no mercy. As a consequence, the presence of one disease usually provides no immunity against others." This assumption underpins the methods by which they demonstrated that patients with one chronic medical problem are often undertreated for concurrent unrelated disorders.

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