Comments on: Defensive medicine is aggressive http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/09/defensive-medicine-is-aggressive.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/09/defensive-medicine-is-aggressive.html#comment-87356 Anonymous Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:39:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/09/defensive-medicine-is-aggressive.html#comment-87356 "Until the system is perceived as being fairer, physicians will do all they can to avoid being sued. That involves ordering unnecessary tests, which is a shame, because those billions of dollars can be put to much better use."<br/><br/>Oddly though, physicians as a group cannot agree on what "defensive medicine" is, nor can they show it actually prevents them from being sued.<br/><br/>If, as you claim in your editorial, the mere fact of being sued is a significant trauma (sometimes physicians are such drama queens), how does defensive medicine keep that from happening? “Until the system is perceived as being fairer, physicians will do all they can to avoid being sued. That involves ordering unnecessary tests, which is a shame, because those billions of dollars can be put to much better use.”

Oddly though, physicians as a group cannot agree on what “defensive medicine” is, nor can they show it actually prevents them from being sued.

If, as you claim in your editorial, the mere fact of being sued is a significant trauma (sometimes physicians are such drama queens), how does defensive medicine keep that from happening?

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