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There are four questions which in some form or other every patient asks his doctor: (a) What is the matter with me? This is diagnosis. (b) Can you put me right? This is treatment and prognosis. (c) How did I get it? This is causation. (d) How can I avoid it in future? This is prevention.

George Newman

George Newman

George Newman

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Born: October 23, 1870

Died: May 26, 1948 (aged 77)

Bio: Sir George Newman GBE, KCB was an English public health physician, Quaker, the first Chief Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health in England, and wrote a seminal treatise on the social problems causing infant mortality.

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