Defensive Medicine is a Symptom, not a Disease

We are living through an increasingly litigious ecosphere. Patients expect better from their physicians, demand more from their administrations, and, most of all, rely extensively on their consumeristic predispositions. Consequently, governments raise the bar on quality and vigilance through indiscriminate clerical mandates and bureaucracy. The excessive dictates- which in turn places an extra burden on the medical community, predominantly physicians. The concluding scenario stays a vicious circle of petition, mandate, and accountability. If the cycle not corrected, it would potentially cause the physician to burnout, change profession, or take up a defensive medical practice. Whichever footpath a physician takes is…...