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2. M. Konner, Becoming a Doctor (New York: Penguin Books, 1988), at 21.
3. Rutkow, General Surgical Operations in the United States, 121 Arch. Surg. 1145(1986).
4. See generally Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, The New Our Bodies, Ourselves (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984).
5. Graboys et al., Results of a Second-Opinion Program for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery, 258 JAMA 1611(1987); and see generally Friedman, “Second-Opinion Programs Come into Their Own,” Hospitals, July 16, 1984, at 105.