CanMeds Communicator
Information Gathering

References for this Section

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11. The facts below are from a document produced by Dalhousie medical school "Five Basic Tasks of the Medical interview" csp.medicine.dal.ca/docs/CCG_evidence.pdf Accessed May 11, 2010

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