title: Defensive medicine--friend or foe?
authors.forename: H L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Hirsh
mesh_terms: D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003675:Defensive Medicine; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards; D007351:Insurance, Liability / Q000191:economics; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D014481:United States