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Originally Posted by Chocaholic
No, massive quantities of lawyers are to blame. No one wants to point to our limitless malpractice settlements and the resulting cost of malpractice insurance and overuse of diagnostics as defensive medicine. The US is unique in that regard, yet no one seems to think it's worthy of consideration as a reason our health care system is also the most costly.
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This is also perhaps the one reason that strikes us in Scandinavia as the most alien and strange. I would not want to work in a system that constantly keep me nervous of malpractice suits and hence unavoidably pushes me to put kids through a variety of more or less painful and terrifying diagnostic procedures in order to cover my back, instead of trusting my clinical judgment.