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PROVIDERS IN ALL PARTS OF the health care system recognize that troublesome social conditions drive much of their work and costs. Major challenges in people’s social circumstances—layoffs, foreclosures, accidents, violence—can create horrific health care needs, many of which become chronic and carry high price tags. These extreme needs are omnipres
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Still, the moment when Weinberg takes the plunge, when he asks the woman about pastry, is very familiar. It’s a moment every clinician has inhabited and, all too often, pulled back from—a threshold we fear crossing. We imagine ourselves, now, in Weinberg’s place, and recognize a double bind, a new doctor’s dilemma: if we ask about the pastry, we fa
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