Some honesty from the legal profession by acknowledging the presence of defensive medicine. Kudos to this attorney for telling us what he really wants – frequent and expensive tests, no matter what the cost:
I want my doctor to use defensive medicine. I want them to use anything available to make sure they are on the right track. When you are talking about a member of your family, your child, you don’t want a doctor taking shortcuts on some diagnostic test. It’s just like a recent case where a patient went into the hospital because he had a fall and hurt his neck and they didn’t X-ray. The next morning he woke up paralyzed from the neck down. They saved the cost of that X-ray, but the result is catastrophic because that person is paralyzed for the rest of his life.
