On the other hand, when doctors prescribe inappropriate drugs, the cost is very high and it is a total loss. In 2001, the cost of non-compliance in prescription standards in United States was nearly $1.2 billion. (Can Costs Be Controlled While Preserving Quality?) These are the areas in which the experts have to tell the doctors. The aim of the sessions is not to reflect on the quality of existing doctors, or tell them that they are out of date and now need advice from others, but to advise them about methods through which costs can be reduced. The total aim of the exercise is to maintain quality that exists and continue on the same path of excellence. At the same time, there are some problems in future that are being viewed, and action has to be taken...

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