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Sunday, April 8, 2012

Doctor's actions were appropriate, after all

In a Citizen article describing the charges against Dr. Gilbert Shapiro, one of the charges was that he prescribed medicine for back pain without an MRI. In an article in The New York Times on April 4, "a group of nine medical specialty boards plans to recommend on Wednesday that doctors perform 45 common tests and procedures les...

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