Review: In adults, general health checks do not reduce all-cause, cardiovascular, or cancer mortality

Comment

Joel M Schectman. Ann Intern Med. 2019.

. 2019 May 21;170(10):JC52.

doi: 10.7326/ACPJ201905210-052.

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Managing the moral expansion of medicine.
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