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An ER resident opens his eyes to defensive medicine

He’s pissed that the attendings are forcing him to repeatedly call specialists in:

Here, all of the attendings keep saying that patients will sue if they don’t like the job we do, so since we’re at a university hospital we call the specialist. That’s Bull****. I went into emergency medicine because I like to do these things….not stay on the phone and watch someone else do my procedure.

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