Your Inner Statistician, Revisited: A You-Centered View Of Medical Testing
David Katz, M.D.
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Posted 10.24.2011
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Many doctors, particularly young doctors, come to view test results as if handed down direct from the heavens -- and forget that context greatly alters their implications. It shouldn't be your burden to defend against this -- but alas, it is.
