Legal aspects of health care administration.
Defensive Medicine
A survey of primary-care doctors conducted in 2009 finds that 42% of the 627 respondents believed the patients in their own practice were getting too much care. Just 6% of doctors believed their patients were getting too little care. (The rest thought the level of care was just right.) And, 28% of the doctors thought they themselves were practicing more aggressively than they would prefer to. (WSJ 9/6/2011)
Discuss this statement in one paragraph (using between 5 – 8 sentences):: “Medical practice in America can be changed by changing the malpractice laws.”
For full credit you must agree or disagree with the statement as follows.
1. State your opinion;
2. state the reason(s) for your opinion; and,
3. An example that supports your opinion.
