Check out this interesting NYT’s article “Teaching Physicians the Price of Care.” When I was in residency we were taught to consider whether a test would change management before ordering it, but we never explicitly reviewed prices.
What’s provocative is that some systems reward physicians financially for expensive testing. That topic is notably missing from the article.
Dr. Finkel is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Medical School. On completing her residency at Harvard, she was asked to
stay on as faculty at Harvard Medical School and spent five years teaching at the world-renowned Massachusetts General Hospital.
She was appointed to the Assistant Residency Director position for the Harvard Affiliated
Emergency Medicine Residency where she reviewed countless applications, personal statements and resumes. Read more
