title: Doctors increasingly practise "defensive" medicine for fear of litigation, says regulator.
authors.affiliation: London.
authors.forename: Adrian
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: O'Dowd
mesh_terms: D003675:Defensive Medicine / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D005239:Fear; D006801:Humans; D007603:Jurisprudence; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D006113:United Kingdom