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Mostly this. I think most doctors mean well but but when you go looking for problems that you are trained to find you usually find something, and medicine is so
by ams6110 8y ago
Mostly this. I think most doctors mean well but but when you go looking for problems that you are trained to find you usually find something, and medicine is so defensive these days due to malpractice litigation that nothing even slightly anomalous is ever ignored.
- gizmo385 8y ago> medicine is so defensive these days due to malpractice litigation Is there any evidence of this? I've seen malpractice litigation similarly cited as one of the reasons behind the the high cost of health care in the US (which is also frequently disputed [1]) [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/04/upshot/malpractice-reform-wont-do-much-to-reduce-health-spending.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/04/upshot/malpractice-reform...