Naik: Physicians’s Role in Healthcare – Minnesota Daily

Read article - Cites a 2008 comparative study conducted by Brenda Sirovich, associate professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, that compared physicians in cities with low costs of care and high costs of care. Sirovich found that physicians in cities with low costs of care typically called patients back less and utilized many less tests to confirm their diagnosis when compared to their higher-spending region counterparts, and did this without compromising the quality of care.