>Why can't a doctor see an anomaly and decide not to chase it down based on the same reasoning that they use to not scan for it Mostly it is just how the medic

>Why can't a doctor see an anomaly and decide not to chase it down based on the same reasoning that they use to not scan for it Mostly it is just how the medical industry works. A previous co-worker of mine had a wife that ran a small family practice. He was always griping about the money they spent on insurance for the place ($20k a year or quarterly, can't remember). I asked why it was so much, and case in point, he told of a story just in the prior year of a woman that came in for a knot on her breast. She was informed to come back in a month as sometimes hormones can cause them to come and go. Well they never saw her again but a year later they got a malpractice lawsuit from her since she now had breast cancer...