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ER Doctors Over-Prescribing Tests to Avoid Malpractice Lawsuits

| March 25, 2015 Comment

ER Doctors Over-Prescribing Tests to Avoid Malpractice Lawsuits – According to a new report, as much as $210 billion is spent on needless MRIs and CT scans. Researchers surveyed 435 ER physicians and 97 of them said they orders scans that were not necessary because they wanted to cover all their bases and did not […]

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