In lieu of link-blogging today, I wrote this piece summarizing my thoughts on a favorite topic of this blog - defensive medicine.What is defensive.
www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/defensive-medicine.html

Some doctors and patients may be willing to experience some anxiety for the unknown. But most won't, especially since neither party is directly paying for ...
www.kevinmd.com/blog/.../reasons-doctors-practice-defensive-medicine.html

At $210 billion annually, defensive medicine is one of the largest contributors to wasteful spending, and it can manifest in many forms: unnecessary CT ...
www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/09/classic-post-wasted-medical-dollars.html

Nov 17, 2008 ... Defensive medicine has always been highly controversial, but there is mounting evidence confirming its major contribution to health care ...
www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/.../defensive-medicine-wastes-money-and. html

Anyone who reads this blog knows what I think about defensive medicine, and how I feel it is one of the leading factors in rising health care costs today.
www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/defensive-medicine-in-news.html

Apr 24, 2008 ... Thanks for all the feedback for my defensive medicine op-ed in yesterday's USA Today: Wasted medical dollars.
www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/defensive-medicine-op-ed-reaction.html

Sep 28, 2007 ... Chris Rangel on how defensive medicine has changed the practice of medicine:The practice of emergency medicine (among other high risk ...
www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/09/cover-your-ass-defensive-medicine.html

Apr 10, 2008 ... According to a new analysis:A lot of the waste is attributed to some favorite bugaboos of efficiency advocates, including ineffective use of ...
www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/defensive-medicine-210-billion.html

Lawyers and left-leaning policy wonks often discount how pervasive defensive medicine is.WhiteCoat, an emergency physician, is almost convinced by those ...
www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/.../some-lawyers-say-defensive-medicine.html

Jan 2, 2008 ... I don't know what is. And I strongly suspect that many other cardiologists think the same way:Another told me that it was his policy to cath ...
www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/01/if-this-isnt-defensive-medicine.html