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Doing more less

January 1st, 2015  |  by

British doctors do less of everything, writes Lynn Payer, a medical journalist whose Medicine and Culture (1995), a lively comparison of medical practices in France, England, Germany and the U.S. offers compelling evidence of the surprising degree to which medicine is culturally imbedded.  American doctors do more.  If you’re practicing medicine in this country, you’re… Read more


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