CLINICAL PROBLEM-SOLVING. Too Much of a Good Thing

Lauren A Beste1, Richard H Moseley1, Sanjay Saint1

  • 1From the General Medicine Service (L.A.B.), Health Services Research and Development (L.A.B.), and Hospital and Specialty Medicine Service (L.A.B., P.B.C.) of the Veterans Affairs (VA) Puget Sound Health Care System, and Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine (L.A.B., P.B.C.) - both in Seattle; and the Medicine Service, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System (R.H.M., S.S.), and Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Health System (R.H.M., S.S.) - both in Ann Arbor.

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