{"id":166,"date":"2016-02-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seidmanlaw-net.lawblogger.net\/blog\/communication-does-more-than-extra-tests\/"},"modified":"2022-06-29T17:09:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T22:09:18","slug":"communication-does-more-than-extra-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/communication-does-more-than-extra-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Physician-Patient Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Medical malpractice<\/a> | February 19, 2016<\/p>\n

Doctors often turn to extra tests and paperwork to try to reduce the odds of medical malpractice. They have taken to calling this practice “defensive medicine.” If one office visit or one scan will work, won’t two or three be even better, reducing the odds that a mistake will be made?<\/p>\n

There is some merit to this. In the cases when a scan or a test does miss the mark, doing it multiple times could expose the truth. However, on the whole, experts say that this does not really make errors\u2014or the lawsuits that go along with them\u2014less likely.<\/p>\n

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