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Article 4 WHY DO DOCTORS PRACTICE DEFENSIVE MEDICINE? THE SIDE-EFFECTS OF MEDICAL LITIGATION
Defensive medicine takes place when doctors prescribe unnecessary tests, procedures or specialist visits (positive defensive medicine), or avoid high risk patients or procedures (negative defensive medicine). Doctors practice defensive medicine in order to reduce their exposure to medical malpractice litigation. This paper reports the results of two studies one national and one conducted at a r...
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