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Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.


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BEN HECHT Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effo...
BEN HECHT There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JOHNSON Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON All concord's born of contraries.
BEN JONSON The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world ...
BEN STEIN Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achieveme...
BEN STEIN In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is neve...
BEN STEIN Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would ...
BEN MANSKI