It’s natural to skimp on care when it’s costly

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“Have you ever been told you have a heart murmur?” a young doctor gently asked my friend, Ben. Ben’s mind reeled. Ben was in his early 30s, relatively young and healthy.  But his father had died from a heart attack before age 50. And his mother had a heart problem.  What did this question signal for him, he worried.

“Um, ah, no, I haven’t,” …

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