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Dr. Joseph Bell was a real person and a skilled Scottish surgeon known for his deductive reasoning and attention to detail, while Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who is based on Dr. Bell. Holmes possesses extraordinary deductive abilities and uses them to solve complex mysteries in Doyle's stories. While Dr. Bell inspired the character of Holmes, the two differ in that Holmes is a fictional character with exaggerated abilities.

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