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Doctors Overlook Lucrative Procedures When Naming Unwise Treatments : In the "Choosing Wisely" campaign, medical specialty

2015-10-15 21:45:28

Doctors Overlook Lucrative Procedures When Naming Unwise Treatments : In the "Choosing Wisely" campaign, medical specialty societies have published lists of procedures that doctors and patients should consider skeptically. But some groups overlooked their own dubious...

Source: khn.org

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