{
  "id": 17806605,
  "title": "Simulated heart failure appointments uncover shared consultation patterns among doctors across four countries",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/02/simulated-heart-failure-appointments-uncover-shared-consultation",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-02T14:00:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-11-simulated-heart-failure-uncover-patterns.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Whether in Beijing, Ankara, Groningen or Würzburg, doctors treat patients with heart failure in remarkably similar ways. Not only are the medical procedures similar, but so are the questions doctors ask, their gestures and the way consultations unfold. This is the finding of an international study led by sociologists Anja Weiß and Tao Liu from the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE). The findings,…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}