Both of these actions reflect a fundamental precept of voluntary disclosure.

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"Know your numbers" is a fundamental precept of business.

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It is a fundamental precept of medicine -- one I hammer home with undergraduates (future patients) and medical students (future doctors): Patients with severe abnormalities stand to gain more from intervention than patients with mild ones.

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And our belief is based on the fundamental ethical precept of medicine is that we first do no harm.

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