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“Our health care approaches squander billions on extravagant treatment regimes that end up accomplishing little, as a society we refuse to adopt the small, even tiny adjustments that could easily reduce the clawing uncertainties that now degrade millions.”

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Book:A Life Worth Living: A Doctor's Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era

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