I am an internist and, once upon a time, a card-carrying lipidologist. I have spent years watching medicine’s “standards of care” quietly stretch like elastic waistbands. What begins as a targeted therapy for a small group of high-risk patients slowly expands until everyone and their grandmother is expected to be on it. That phenomenon has
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What is guideline creep in medicine? originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
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