RT Journal
A1 Chou C
T1 Nice work if you can get it: Comment on “too little? too much? primary care physicians' views on us health care”
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2011
FD September 26
VO 171
IS 17
SP 1585
OP 1586
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.438
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.438
AB 
Primary care physicians have long expressed dismay at the increasing number of tasks to accomplish for patients in apparently shorter periods. Because it can feel more efficient to order tests, starting with minimally invasive procedures but inevitably escalating to more invasive ones that incur increasing levels of risk, it can be easy to jump to diagnostic conclusions without fully attending to the patient's history. Unfortunate results commonly ensue, as highlighted in a Perspective included in this issue of the Archives.1