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The Consumption Gene
After years of pondering the over-testing, over-imaging, over-diagnosis, and over-treatment that typify US medicine, I have concluded that, like everything else, it must be genetic: We have evolved a gene that controls (or rather, disinhibits) consumption in all its forms. Although the gene has yet to be identified, I think it should be designated as GETIT. The phenotype manifests...
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