How a clinician’s desire to be thorough can cause a harmful spiral of unnecessary care
By Ryan Levi, Side Effects Public MediaDan Gorenstein, Side Effects Public Media Dr. Meredith Niess saw her patient was scared. He’d come to the Veterans Affairs clinic in Denver with a painful hernia near his stomach. Niess, a primary care resident at the time, knew he needed surgery right away. But another doctor had ordered a…