8 specialists most likely to perform defensive medicine

Here are the top eight specialty groups most likely to perform a procedure that may not be medically warranted because of malpractice fears, according to the Medscape Ethics Report 2014, Part 2: Money, Romance and Patients.

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The survey polled more than 17,000 physicians.

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