Survey study evaluates responses of medical maximizers to clinician advice against cancer screening based on limited life expectancy, indicating potential challenges in patient-clinician...
This survey study evaluates how individuals who prefer to receive additionl health tests even when those tests may have limited value or cause harm (ie, medical maximizers), would respond to their clinicians’ suggestion to not undergo cancer screening on the basis of limited life expectancy.
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Brotzman et al. (2026) studied this question.
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