Posted June 15th, 2009 in
On June 1, The New Yorker published a piece by Dr. Atul Gawande examining the driving forces behind a Texas town's high per-capita Medicare spending. The piece concluded it's "the across-the-board overuse of medicine." The article says physicians' profit motives seem to be fueling the overutilization but concedes the differences in the number of doctor-ordered tests and procedures could simply be attributed to different medical training.
