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Thursday, April 3, 2014

Wisely Choosing the Right Care

Hello and welcome. I am Dr. George Lundberg, at large for Medscape.
In about 1989, then-Secretary of Health and Human Services of the US government Dr. Louis Sullivan stated that between 30% and 40% of American medical care was unnecessary, wasted, or inappropriate. In 2013, Massachusetts health dignitaries stated that 30% of medical care in Massachusetts is unnecessary or inappropriate.
If they are correct, why have we in the American medical profession not fixed that in more than 20 years? Could it be that generation after generation of people who populate the system simply like it the way it is -- veritable pigs addicted to the money trough?

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