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become a specialist cardiologist. He expressed prophetic concerns about the specialisation of medicine including cardiology stating: 'I fear the day may come when a heart specialist will no longer be a physician looking at the body as a whole, but one with more and more complicated instruments working in a narrow and restricted area of the body – that was never my idea'.
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in 1882) and had many scientific papers published. During
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where he continued to practice medicine for more than a quarter of a century. While he was engaged in a busy practice, he made many original observations, completed his
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