“Most of the problem is that medicine is by nature something less than an exact science – and our society can’t deal with that – and our civil justice system requires docs to pay for it.”
That my friends, is the bottom-line on the why there is a malpractice controversy surrounding us today. It is something that I have mentioned before (here and here).
Medicine is less than an exact science
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