Whether or not they’re worth their high cost as a way of detecting rare cardiac conditions, they may at least be one means of keeping the lawyers at bay (KevinMD, first, second Feb. 17 posts).
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
by Walter Olson on March 1, 2006

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