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Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.

William Osler
Real, Suffering, Disease
St. Bartholomew's Hospital Reports 52: 39 (1916)
Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.