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We study the ability choices and pricing strategies of physicians in a duopolistic market where consumers base their decisions on anecdotes. The consumers are aware of only some of the physicians and estimate their abilities by taking a sample from the patients a physician has previously treated. In this setting, situations arise where physicians have incentives to choose a low level of ability even...