Dr. Waxman is senior natural scientist at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, and visiting associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Explore This Issue
ACEP Now: Vol 34 – No 01– January 2015Pages: 1 2 3 | Single Page
One Response to “Threat of Malpractice Lawsuits May Not Be Driving Defensive Medicine”
February 2, 2015
William RogersThe other driver of excessive testing is a peer review process that expects perfection. Send a child home with abdominal pain that turns out to be appendicitis and you can expect to have your competence questioned and self confidence eroded. Perfection can’t be achieved and we need to accept the fact. I long for the simpler times when I began in Emergency Medicine a third of a century ago.