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Art of Medicine
Sep 2020

Choosing Unwisely

Abey Kozhimannil Thomas, MD
This comic conveys the absurdity of overreliance on symptom measures and excessive testing in contemporary clinical decision making and health care practice.
AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(9):E816-817. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.816.

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