American medicine’s obsession with over-testing isn’t just costly—for some patients, it can do more harm than good.

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A follow-up MRI and then a painful biopsy were just as ambiguous. So surgeons removed the mass—and the kidney with it—only to discover it was a harmless piece of fat. The devastating conclusion: Her remaining kidney failed soon after.

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