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Does the practice of defensive medicine cause patient exhaustion in finding a diagnosis?
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∙ 14y ago
Defensive medicine involves excessive testing, in part, to protect the physician from being sued by patients. Since there are more tests being performed than what is necessary to make a diagnosis, patients become exhausted both mentally/spiritually as well as financially in their journey to find a proper diagnosis. Often what happens is patients do not get a diagnosis from the first physician they see, so they go to another, and another...and some docs see that behavior as potentially legally threatening. It is best to be referred to a specialist by your regular doctor or by an Emergency clinic. American society is becoming more and more litigious every day....Defensive Medicine protects the doctor and sometimes results in a diagnosis for the patient...mostly it rules out diagnoses.
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