Observers question Johnson's political skills, and they readily offer anecdotes that suggest that she is amateurish in her approach to the campaign.

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To illustrate how things go awry, the authors offer anecdotes from their own emergency rooms, such as doctors who focused on cardiac issues for a woman who has fainted, when listening more carefully to her complaints might have quickly uncovered the real problem: a dangerous infection in her gall bladder.

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