Doctors often order tests and recommend drugs or procedures when they shouldn?t

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Doctors often order tests and recommend drugs or procedures when they shouldn?t
Doctors often order tests and recommend drugs or procedures when they shouldn?t ? sometimes even when they know they shouldn?t. The problem has become so serious that such groups as the American College of Physicians, the ABIM Foundation, the National Physicians Alliance and a coalition of medical societies in a project called Choosing Wisely have compiled lists of tests and treatments that doctors themselves say are done too often. Below are five top examples from those lists.

Source: Washington Post
Posted on: Tuesday, Jun 05, 2012, 8:49am
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