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Why Doctors Are Ordering Too Many CT Scans and MRIs - TIME

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Oh yeah, one more thing:

" Of course, no discussion of overtesting would be complete without a mention

of the positive incentives doctors have to order tests — *such as making

money*. This may be true in instances in which the doctor owns the radiology

equipment, as dentists'

offices<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/us/23scan.html>do. But

whether most individual doctors think in those terms is somewhat

less clear. There is actually a more subtle positive incentive: ordering a

test — cost aside — takes less effort than spending the time to think about

whether it's really needed.

If you want to know whether your doctor orders more tests to make more

money, ask her how much the tests cost, and how much she thinks she makes

for ordering the test. Most likely she doesn't know. "

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