The Operator
Is the most trusted doctor in America doing more harm than good?
One evening a few weeks ago, several members of a television film crew
crammed themselves into a tiny examination room on the seventh floor of
the Research Medical Center, in Kansas City. The sun had set and the
light was fading. Two men, one hoisting a big camera and the other a
sound boom, stood in a corner less than a foot from one another. The
hospital’s chief of medicine, the head of its cardiology department, and
a nurse were also in the room. All were watching as a heavyset
forty-six-year-old woman, with cornflower-blue eyes, a sweet smile, and
auburn hair parted neatly in the middle, struggled to keep pace on a
treadmill. Earlier that day, she had complained of chest pains, and had
reported a family history of heart disease
For the rest of the story: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/02/04/130204fa_fact_specter?currentPage=all
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