Physicals may not be needed annually

The debate is on: do patients need an annual physical or is it a waste of time and money? Harvard Medical School ’s Dr. Ateev Mehrota and epidemiologist Dr. Allan Prochazka of the Colorado School of Public Health see annual physicals as an unnecessary drain on the medical system, pointing out that they cost over $10 billion a year, which is close to the cost of all lung cancer care given in the United States . Dr. Alan Goroll of Harvard Medical School counters that the annual physical should remain but be renovated and used as an opportunity to reaffirm the relationship between physicians and patients.
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