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rolour
Feb 16, 2007, 03:53 PM
CHICAGO - There’s an open secret in medicine: Patients lie.

They lie about how much they smoke and whether they’re taking their medicine. They understate how much they drink and overstate how much they exercise. They feign symptoms to get appointments quicker and ask doctors to hide the truth from insurance companies.


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