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Author(s)
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Christopher N DeGannes, MD, FACP
Assistant Professor; Clerkship Director of Medicine; Course Director of Introduction to Clinical Medicine, Howard University
College of Medicine, Washington, DC
Disclosures
Disclosure: Christopher N. DeGannes, MD, FACP, was supported in part by grant K07HL0801466 from the National Heart, Lung,
and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
