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Defensive medicine less costly than anticipated
For the past several years, policymakers have linked physicians' fear of malpractice suits to the rise in defensive medicine, and assumed these forces were contributing to rising healthcare costs.
'Laborists' handle hospital deliveries
The hospitalist model must be successful--because it's spanned at least one new subspecialty. Increasingly, with OB/GYNs in short supply, hospitals are working with a new reed of physicians dubbed
