The Lake Wobegon Effect: Are All Cancer Patients above Average?
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The Lake Wobegon effect: are all cancer patients above average?
CONTEXT When elderly patients face a terminal illness such as lung cancer, most are unaware that what we term in this article "the Lake Wobegon effect" taints the treatment advice imparted to them by their oncologists. In framing treatment plans, cancer specialists tend to intimate that elderly patients are like the children living in Garrison Keillor's mythical Lake Wobegon: above average and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Milbank Quarterly
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0887-378X
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12030