Defensive Medicine: Giving New Meaning to the Term “Overkill”
Defensive medicine has become the standard of care, thanks to trial lawyers who have blurred the lines between malpractice and “mal-occurrence,” and the effects are not only costly in terms of money – they may also be costing patients their lives, according to Dr. Peter Weiss, Assistant Clinical Professor of OB/GYN at The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. For example, doctors call for more than 62 million CAT scans annually in the USA, and an estimated one-third of these are medically unnecessary – and will be responsible for up to 2% of all cancers in the USA in the next few decades, says Weiss, who served as the health care adviser to John McCain’s presidential campaign. In a blog post at PJ Media he explains why he thinks the “English (loser pays) System” is the answer.
