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NEJM Interview: Drs. Allan Goroll and Ateev Mehrotra on whether the annual physical should be retained, eliminated, or modified for 21st-century realities.

Published: Oct. 14, 2015, 4:01 p.m.

b'Dr. Allan Goroll is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Ateev Mehrotra is an associate professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. A.H. Goroll. Toward Trusting Therapeutic Relationships - In Favor of the Annual Physical. N Engl J Med 2015;373:1487-9. A. Mehrotra and A. Prochazka. Improving Value in Health Care - Against the Annual Physical. N Engl J Med 2015;373:1485-7.'