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Using voter registration databases in 29 states, investigators identified more than 20,000 primary care physicians who were registered as Republicans or Democrats. A random sample of 1529 physicians were invited to participate in an activity that involved responding to clinical vignettes; 306 physicians participated. Vignettes concerned young adults without chronic illnesses but with specific health issues. Five issues were judged to be not politically partisan: alcohol abuse, smoking, depression, obesity, and motorcycling without a helmet. Four were judged to be politically charged: seeing sex workers, regular use of marijuana, keeping firearms in a home with small children, and having undergone several elective abortions. Respondents were…