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Doctor's Visits

It may seem as though doctor visits are getting shorter. But a study in this week's New England Journal of Medicine finds that's not the case. As NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports, the study concluded that the average visit to a physician is two minutes longer than it was in 1989.

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