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To the Editor: The Clinical Problem-Solving article (Nov. 2 issue)¹ describing a patient with hypereosinophilic syndrome who had a particularly comprehensive series of diagnostic and ultimately misleading or fruitless tests provides an excellent example of one of the major problems in medicine today, that of excessive diagnostic testing and the economic consequences. We believe the case report is particularly useful and represents almost a paradigm of the problem. In their commentary, Drs. Putterman and Ben-Chetrit contrast the "liberal tester" (in this case the primary attending physician) and the "parsimonious tester" (the discussant) and highlight the reasoning and appropriateness of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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