Author response: Defensive medicine and second victims in surgery

Complaints, shame and defensive medicine.

While the complaints process is intended to improve healthcare, some doctors appear to practise defensive medicine after receiving a complaint. This response occurs in countries that use a tort-based medicolegal system as well as in countries with less professional liability. Defensive medicine is based on avoiding malpractice liability rather than considering a risk-benefit analysis for both i...

Defensive Medicine and Medical Malpractice

Self-Defensive Response to Bone Disorder after Gastric Cancer Surgery

Background/Aims: Changes in estradiol that inhibits bone resorption were examined to investigate the in vivo defensive response to progression of bone disorder after gastric cancer surgery. Materials and Methods: Women who might show effects of menstruation were excluded because estradiol was examined. The subjects were 17 men with a mean age of 60.4 years who had undergone gastrectomy because ...

Pakistan cannot afford defensive medicine.

the first two-thirds of the 20th century, the most common basis on which malpractice lawsuits were lodged against physicians were allegations that the physicians did something wrong. 1,2 About three decades ago, physicians began to be sued for failing to do something right. 3 This was when defensive medicine came into being as a response to malpractice litigations and now it has become an undec...

Defensive Medicine in Israel – A Nationwide Survey

BACKGROUND Defensive medicine is the practice of diagnostic or therapeutic measures conducted primarily as a safeguard against possible malpractice liability. We studied the extent, reasons, and characteristics of defensive medicine in the Israeli health care system. METHODS AND FINDINGS Cross-sectional study performed in the Israeli health care system between April and July 2008 in a sample ...