Medical spending for a breast-cancer survivor, for instance, averaged an estimated fifty-four thousand dollars in 2003, the vast majority of it for the initial diagnostic testing, surgery, and, where necessary, radiation and chemotherapy.

NEWYORKER: Letting Go

While hospitals report on quality measures such as cardiac bypass surgery outcomes, diagnostic errors aren't reported or measured by federal or private quality programs.

WSJ: Adding Up Diagnosis Errors

The detachment, housed at Bagram Airfield, the sprawling military installation north of Kabul, has surgery bays and diagnostic tools to give the military's robot companions a second chance.

WSJ: In the Afghan War, a Little Robot Can Be a Soldier's Best Friend

Toronto and Calgary have sprouted health centres that employ scores of doctors, charging heavily for diagnostic services and some orthopaedic or dental surgery.

ECONOMIST: Canada

Compared with patients in El Paso and nationwide, patients in McAllen got more of pretty much everything more diagnostic testing, more hospital treatment, more surgery, more home care.

NEWYORKER: The Cost Conundrum