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Editorial

Nature Reviews Urology 2, 261 (1 June 2005) | doi:10.1038/ncpuro0200

So what about history?

David A Bloom

The visibility of the past is an essential part of the present and a clue to the future. A physician is necessarily a historian, and it is the skill at listening to a patient and probing with relevant questions, to create a history, that makes the difference between mundane and extraordinary clinicians.