Misjudging our own effectiveness: Clinicians limited by the slice of the population in their care

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Misjudging our own effectiveness: Clinicians limited by the slice of the population in their care

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Lucy O'Hagan

Sorry we're closed [Image: Tim Mossholder on Unsplash]
Many patients would join a practice if they could, but feel excluded for a variety of reasons [Image: Tim Mossholder on Unsplash]

The patients we don’t see would have a lot to teach us, writes Lucy O’Hagan

One of the great distortions in clinical medicine is that we know only the patients we see. We don’t think too much about the ones who don’t come, or