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With health care reform rising to the top of our nation's political agenda, the burgeoning costs of the nonclinical aspects of patient care are finally coming under scrutiny¹. Most of the focus is properly being directed toward paperwork, malpractice, and unnecessary services. Less attention is being devoted to a more insidious and pervasive requirement for physicians: attendance at meetings, the frequency of which appears to be increasing at a logarithmic rate.

Meeting mania, a rampant phenomenon of the 1990s, occurs in all fields of endeavor, wherever people in white collars or power suits congregate. "Sorry, he/she is in a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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