Disclosing vulnerabilities has been standard practice in the security industry for the better part of two decades.

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In practice, getting this process to work is one part science and two parts cookery.

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Likewise, primary care doctors are seeing similar phenomena and increasingly there are organizations such as Physician Care Direct and the American Academy of Private Physicians which are setup to transition a primary care practice into a model that can be described as two parts Marcus Welby, one part Steve Jobs.

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