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Dr. Baybick is medical director of Capital Digestive Care, LLC, Laboratory Division, Bowie, Md.; Dr. Allen is professor of medicine, and clinical chief of gastroenterology and hepatology at the Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn. The authors disclose no conflicts of interest.
Content from this column was originally published in the "Practice Management: The Road Ahead" section of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology (2014;12:3-6).
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