healthcare overutilization

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Too Much Care

By Alex Lickerman, MD

The Healthcare System

10/16/16 – Some time ago, one of my elderly patients (who granted me permission to tell this story) began requiring blood transfusions for a condition known as ischemic colitis. Ischemic colitis usually occurs because…Read More