The above is the title of a presentation I gave today at Medical Grand Rounds at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Below is the PowerPoint file of that presentation.
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Screening For Disease – When Not to Do It
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 3rd November 2011
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