More than 90 percent also believe better protection against unwarranted malpractice suits is necessary to reduce the number of unnecessary medical tests.
Authors of the study, in the current issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, report that about $60 billion is spent on defensive medicine each year.
Read the Mount Sinai School of Medicine release on defensive medicine.
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