“The possibility of a lawsuit increased the intensity of health care that patients received in the hospital by about 5 percent — and those patients who got the extra care were no better off.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/upshot/malpractice-lawsuits-medical-costs.html
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