Physician leader: Medical resident training should focus on cost-conscious care

Medscape: Residency Training Should Stress Cost-Conscious Care
"Why didn't you order test X?" That question, posed routinely to residents by faculty members at teaching hospitals, bears some of the blame for the high and unsustainable cost of U.S. health care, writes a leader of the American College of Physicians in the September 20 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine (Lowes, 9/20).