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Interview with Drs. Allan Goroll and Ateev Mehrotra on whether the annual physical should be retained, eliminated, or modified for 21st-century realities. (15:51)Download Annual physicals do not reduce morbidity or mortality, and they waste time and money. To address their overuse, relationship-building visits could be created, preventive care could be updated in other ways, and reimbursement could be changed accordingly.
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Mehrotra et al. (2015) studied this question.
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