Gonad the Barbarian
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- Oct 16, 1999
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Originally posted by: tk149
Originally posted by: Gonad the Barbarian
Originally posted by: alchemize
Example of defensive medicine:
I broke a bone in my foot, but it was a hairline fracture. So they did a bone scan to get a better image. But they scanned my whole body...took like 2 hours instead of 15 minutes. Super-expensive machine taking 6 times as long. Why? Because they had been sued by somebody that had cancer and had a bone scan, and they didn't scan the whole body.
No way I buy that. Not that it didn't happen, but their motivation. Sounds like they were just padding their own pockets.
Bullcrap. While there may be some doctors who just want to line their pockets, I have heard many (in person) complain about being forced to practice defensive medicine.
Yeah, who doesn't complain when they are "forced" to bilk customers for more money? There is no way that running a full body scan for every broken bone is less costly than dealing with the odd lawsuit payout because you didn't. No one is forcing them to do this. They do it for the $.