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No, they're not practicing defensive medicine to protect themselves from the greedy "jackpot justice" lawyers or anything....
Read the article. There is a difference between “defensive medicine” and tort reform. No one has good idea of how much defensive medicine costs because it is difficult to distinguish between panicky doctors and greedy doctors. For example, supposedly c-sections are being done because of a John Edwards law suit, but c-sections pay in excess of $5,000 more, not counting post op follow-up. So are some doctors doing a lot of them because they scairt, or because they get to make a bundle.
parsy, who says that is the question