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To the Editor: It is not uncommon for a patient's occupational history to provide an essential clue leading to the correct diagnosis. Insights into the causes of a patient's persistent fever might be informed by knowledge of the patient's lifestyle or occupation: for example, the source could be endocarditis in an intravenous drug user or tularemia in a rabbit hunter. However, when such insights derive from shaky clinical science, the clinician abandons both professional objectivity and patient advocacy.

A case in point is the recent Clinical Problem-Solving article by Gulati et al. (Jan. 6 issue),¹ in which the discussant starts . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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