Where is defensive medicine when you need it?

Steve Lombardi

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I wonder if I could die from defensive medicine not being practiced in Iowa.

Over the weekend Barbara drove me to the local clinic because I was sick as a dog and coughing so hard my lungs and chest and upper back muscles ached. The doctor walks in looks in my ears and throat, listens to my heart and lungs and says he’s putting me on antibiotics. And I thought what no x-ray or blood tests? Just drugs? No definitive diagnosis? Wait a minute. I thought about H1N1 and everything written about people dying from it so I rhetorically stated, “Maybe I have N1H1.”

All he said was “Yeah you might.”

And that was it. He talked for a few more minutes and left the exam room.

Which made me think, hey wait a minute where is all that defensive medicine I’m hearing about? How come I’m not getting unnecessary x-rays and stuff? After all if anyone is going to get defensive and unnecessary tests it’s got to be a Plaintiff attorney who even the Boogie Man has been led to believe are the one’s to fear for destroying the economic viability of this country. I read where even a house cat had its H1N1 diagnosed. How come it got a definitive diagnosis and not me? What test definitely tells you it's swine flu? Do you think they diagnosed the feline with a CAT scan?

But again I got nothing, no defensive medicine, and no unnecessary tests and was left wondering, “Does defensive medicine really exist?”

Maybe defensive medicine died from the H1N1 virus….