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"Nudge" Part 2: Mr. Nudge Goes to Washington

If Books Could Kill

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The Economics of Defensive Medicine

We have a fee for service model. It's so obvious that that's the primary driver of doctors like that, assuming that there are some decent population of doctors who are sort of overemphasizing tests. There's also a legal standard thing here where all this stuff about defensive medicine is actually totally separate from the medical malpractice thing because you can't sue a doctor for ordering an MRI when you didn't need one or doing a blood test that comes back negative.

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