Docs Think We Get Too Much Doctoring

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Docs Think We Get Too Much Doctoring

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Sep 28, 2011

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Many U.S. physicians think that their patients and their patient's purses could get by with less medical care. Katherine Harmon reports

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Sep 28, 2011

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