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The next issue of ACP Internist features stories about:

How many are too many for CT scans? As many as one-third of the 70 million imaging tests ordered during the year may not be needed. Experts attempt to determine whether repeated radiation scanning doses could prove potentially yet unintentionally harmful.

Lack of kidneys for transplants raises debates. A shortage of transplantable organs has led to previously unthought-of issues that entangle ethics, policy, costs and clinical complications. Internists now must consider transplant tourists, long waits and “donation chains” as factors in their patient counseling.

Cut costs without cutting corners to keep the office efficient. Today's health care environment demands that physicians wring every last drop of efficiency from their practices. Here are five easy ways to accomplish that.

These stories and the MKSAP Quiz are online.