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Opinion: Fail First? Is This Any Way to Practice Medicine?

Aug 16th 2010 – 5:22AM
Joe Raedle, Getty Images

Joe Raedle, Getty Images

(Aug. 16) -- Louisiana has become the most recent state to take action against a little understood abuse of the health care system that has been causing unnecessary suffering for patients for far too long. Recently, Gov. Bobby Jindal signed a new law protecting patients from the "fail first" approach to prescribing drugs....

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