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Tired of getting stuck with needles? Ask your doctor to just say 'once.'

  • Written by Christopher Moriates, Assistant Dean for Healthcare Value, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin
imagePatient and doctor in hospital room.From www.shuttertock.com

There are few worse ways to awake a person than with a needle stick in the arm to draw blood. If you have ever spent the night in a hospital, chances are the first thing that happened in the morning was a vampiric nurse or lab technician, following doctor’s orders, standing over...

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