It argued for a more prominent role for GPs in providing out of hours care and performing more serious procedures that might usually be done in hospitals.
Of course, I also knew that traveling to a cardiac epicenter led to more sophisticated procedures that sucked the plaques out of clogged coronaries and installed stents.
And those figures don't count the more minor procedures that women are undergoing - from the silly but harmless enough 'vajacial' to steaming and laser treatment.
The health insurer said patients were increasingly using outpatient services, while fewer were undergoing more expensive procedures that required a hospital stay.
Those should be inspected using the more "formal" procedures that are in place for the plants' original safety equipment, the task force recommended.
The arrangement brought the institutions $900 million over the past two decades, but raised complaints that the groups were deprived of the chance to earn millions more under procedures that benefited Reader's Digest.
Keeping the restraining order in place, after all, would simply maintain, for a few more weeks, procedures that have been followed for years, while the judge in Seattle did his work.
Ms. Hodges learned of newer, more complex procedures that involve transplanting a wedge of fat and blood vessels from the abdomen or buttocks, which would be refashioned to form new breasts.
But broader use of the scans in places with lower-quality medical care, he said, could lead to many more medical procedures that were not needed in the first place.
