Forty-two percent of primary-care physicians think patients are receiving too much medical care. Aaron Carroll looks at the reasons doctors give for overtreatment and spies a disconnect:
Could it be that doctors might practice more aggressively because when they do, they make more? Well, only 3% believed that financial considerations could influence their own practice. Most, however, thought that other physicians would be affected by such things.
Kevin Drum isn't surprised.
The Dish 