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Blood tests are easier to order than ever. Doctors warn they're easy to misread.

Blood tests are easier to order than ever. Doctors warn they're easy to misread.
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Blood work used to start with a doctor’s order, usually to diagnose or monitor disease. But people are increasingly using blood work to ask proactive questions like: How healthy am I? Is something beginning to change? Could I feel or function better? In a recent national survey of 1,000 U.S. pati...

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