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If this isn’t defensive medicine . . .

. . . I don’t know what is. And I strongly suspect that many other cardiologists think the same way:

Another told me that it was his policy to “cath” almost anyone who came to the E.R. complaining of chest pains. In his opinion, the risks posed by routine angiograms were much less than that of a missed heart attack.

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