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        "Patients and people with records",
        "Readers of histories"
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      "master_systems": [
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                    "text": "Which entry fits the specific form?",
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                  }
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              }
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                  {
                    "text": "How do health systems define episodes of care for statistics and payment?",
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                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which references are standard?",
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                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
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        "id": "mind",
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                    "text": "What is episodic memory, and how does it relate to episodes as experienced?",
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                    "text": "Which entry fits episodic memory?",
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                  }
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                    "text": "How do historians and biographers use episodes as units of narrative?",
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                    "text": "Which sources are cited?",
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                  }
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                    "text": "How are television, radio and podcast episodes structured, in outline?",
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                    "kind": "action"
                  }
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              }
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            "id": "language",
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                "id": "language-finding",
                "name": "Language",
                "description": "Language.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How did episode develop from Greek drama to its modern senses?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits etymology?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
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        ]
      }
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    "Should television episode and clinical episode be the primary linked entries?",
    "How should narrative and clinical sources be linked?",
    "The registry aliases mix drama, sleep disorders and literary forms; should they be split off?"
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}