Tips to avoid inappropriate testing

Inappropriately-used medical tests are a product of a myriad of issues within the U.S. healthcare system, but physicians can certainly take steps to better allocate resources.

Eric Glazer, of Best Doctors, a company that facilitates medical consultations, contributed a list of four ways doctors can avoid inappropriate testing in a blog post on Clinical Curbside. Take a look at the link below:

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