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In corporate boardrooms throughout the United States, executives are wrestling with the management of health care costs. They are demanding health care services that are effective and evidence-based and that don't entail excess or unjust costs. They are meticulously assessing insurers and providers on all these counts as never before. And rightly so. There's some irony, then, in the fact that many of these executives leave these boardrooms for days at a time to take part in one of modern medicine's most expensive and least proven approaches to care: the executive physical.

If you want to have an executive physical . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Rank is the medical director of HealthPartners Medical Group and Clinics, Minneapolis. The HealthPartners Medical Group does not have an executive physical program.

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Executive Physicals
Hensrud D. D., Rhodes D. J., Kue P., Ashar B., Dinaker M., Rank B.
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N Engl J Med 2009; 360:421-423, Jan 22, 2009. Correspondence

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• Hensrud, D. D., Rhodes, D. J., Kue, P., Ashar, B., Dinaker, M., Rank, B. (2009). Executive Physicals. NEJM 360: 421-423 [Full Text]