defensive medicine

I think you have to help doctors stop practicing defensive medicine.

"The savings will come as defensive medicine begins to disappear."

Fourth, a lot of high-tech procedures are used as defensive medicine.

Doctors who don't drop out will increasingly practice defensive medicine.

Malpractice has both direct and indirect costs, including "defensive medicine."

There is evidence that malpractice reform helps reduce some of this defensive medicine.

Many doctors practice "defensive medicine" in order to avoid malpractice suits.

Defensive medicine is an order for imaging as a result of potential malpractice, rather than benefit to the patient.

"Big Brother" vigilance will further the practice of defensive medicine and increase costs to the insured.

Dr. Bennett may believe that defensive medicine is "hard to prove."

This crisis, caused by successful damages actions against doctors, is said to result in defensive medicine.

The savings from reducing "defensive medicine" may not wipe away the deficit, but they will help.

One major cause, according to Blue Cross, is doctors who practice so-called defensive medicine.

"Medical malpractice reform is the best way to reduce the costly practice of defensive medicine.

"We're going to be back to the era of defensive medicine where there is double-digit medical inflation.

Defensive medicine: The problem is that even medical experts have trouble agreeing on what it actually is.

(What's defensive medicine to one doctor is often appropriate care to another.)

Billions are wasted on unnecessary procedures because doctors feel compelled to practice defensive medicine.

The rapid increase in legal costs and the size of some awards has created an atmosphere where defensive medicine is being practiced.

Defensive medicine takes two main forms: assurance behavior and avoidance behavior.

Doctors practice defensive medicine because of all the frivolous lawsuits that cost our government $28 billion a year.

Dr. Brown said "it's very much defensive medicine" to recommend mammograms.

Other estimates conclude that the cost of the medical liability system, including defensive medicine, is up to 3%.

A common complaint is that the costs of "defensive medicine" are also raised by the current fear of malpractice.