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53. Why Do Doctors Have to Play Defense?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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When we surveyed physicians in pennsylvania back in two thousand three, 93 % of them said that they pracise defensive medicines. Forty-two per cent do these avoidance behaviors which are the cutting back on risk procedures and refusing to see patients at higher risk. As a result, physicians, hospitals and medical groups were struggling to find and retain coverage to take cind of the worst casesin area. It's so deeply ingrained that doctors didn't know how to practise medicine without it.

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