>>>News flash - every profession has a good share of those. Candidly, I've seen speakers we both know who openly advocated approaches that are definitely not in the best interests of clients.
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>>Actually, the book wasn't about doctors trying to make excess money from doing unnecessary tests. It was about a frame of mind that's become part of the medical mindset and training that results in too much testing.
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>...and why do you think the medical mindset is to test excessively?

A combination of fear of lawsuits and the idea that technology is good. Also, the whole idea of the various "pathways" comes out of the desire to see that every patient gets good treatment. Some of the ideas that came from that goal, like pre-surgery checklists, are really good things.

I strongly recommend the book, enough that I'll repeat the title: When Doctors Don't Listen. I picked it up because we'd met one of the others a few years back and she interesting and spoke passionately about the subject.

Tamar