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Directly or indirectly, medical practitioners influence health‐care policy and spending through their clinical decision‐making. As medical expertise and technology has grown, and patient choice has been empowered by the consumer movement, there are now many more medical interventions than can be accommodated in a finite national health‐care budget. We reviewed the Australian Medical Council, Medical...