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Are Doctors The Problem With Health Care?

President Obama spoke to the American Medical Association Monday. He acknowledged that doctors are critical to health care reform.

Doctors have come under fire for driving up the cost of health care by ordering unnecessary tests and treatments to make an extra buck.

Guests:

Dr. Karen DeSalvo, vice dean of community affairs and health policy executive director of the Tulane Community Health Center at Tulane University School of Medicine

Dr. Sherwin Nuland, clinical professor of surgery, Yale University School of Medicine and author of The Soul of Medicine

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