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Thomas Carlyle's statement "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand" was an integral part of William Osler's philosophy of life, which he discussed in his 1913 address "A Way of Life." In genetic disorders of the heart, such as inherited long-QT syndrome or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, what lies clearly at hand has been clouded by the reduced penetrance and the variable expression of the phenotype. The more obvious and severe cases of these disorders were, of course, the first identified and provided the basis for subsequent diagnoses . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Department of Internal Medicine, LDS Hospital and the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

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