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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
March 30, 2011
Doctors practicing defensive medicine can irradiate, prod and test patients for no good medical reason. That’s what defensive medicine is — when a procedure is done only to prevent the likelihood of lawsuits.
Nobody has a firm number on how much defensive medicine costs. A 2010 Harvard....