If a doctor doesn’t do excess testing, he isn’t going to be able to live

An excerpt from Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician.

After the blowup with Rajiv, I committed myself to changing my standoffish ways. Rajiv had been urging me for some time to meet socially with his physician friends in a relaxed atmosphere away from the hospital, and so there I was a few weeks later at a doctors’ party in Manhasset, a tony …

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