SocraticGadfly: Medical overtesting: Doc says it happens a lot

March 11, 2008

Medical overtesting: Doc says it happens a lot

Long Island cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar actually welcomes Medicare’s cutback in medical testing reimbursements. He says it might play a definite part in getting rid of the ridiculous overload of testing.

He points out this includes the stress of having to do so many tests per month to pay for all the expensive machinery that more and more hospitals and clinics buy, in part to keep up with the medical Joneses.

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