Richard Lehman All you need to read in the other main journals

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The full echo: I recently had an echocardiogram, but have no idea what the nice doctor was looking for, or indeed why. In the US it seems that Medicare spends nearly a billion dollars annually on echocardiography-most of which involves a complete report on both ventricles. This article suggests that some of the cost could be reduced by making fewer measurements. I'm not sure. Once the clinic has bought the machine, hired the nice doctor, and she has squeezed all the jelly on, I think she might as well have a good look round while describing her holiday plans. Plop, whoosh, Corsica. It's all very interesting for us old folk to listen to.