Like oil and water:
In the US, we have a consumerist society where the patient, now a client, makes the decision themselves. It’s a little like picking out a purse at Coach, “I want two preventions and a diagnostic.”
In a society where “more testing = better medicine”, saying no to patients will be the death of any cost-containment/single-payer reform.





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