When a patient is first diagnosed with a disease, education should start with:
1. what has gone wrong and what is likely to happen.
2. why the problem took so long to develop.
3. who caused this problem.
4. what the patient should have done differently.
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When a patient is first diagnosed with a problem, education must start with what has gone wrong and what is likely to happen.
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