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To the Editor: In the April 1 issue,¹ your experts recommended and implemented an extensive, unnecessary cardiologic diagnostic and surgical course of treatment for a hopelessly ill 87-year-old woman; and in the June 3 issue,² your experts put a 71-year-old patient through an extensive workup, including antinuclear-antibody testing, protein electrophoresis, measurement of total complement, and ultrasonography of the left kidney, all before examining the chest film of a patient with obvious peripheral edema and a 50-pack-year history of cigarette smoking.

I suggest that you send your experts back into clinical practice. I think that any second-year medical student who did . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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