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Greed, Incompetence, Trickery Fuel Overprescribing Crisis

Why do physicians typically overprescribe drugs to their patients? Greed, incompetence and trickery stand out, says California Deputy Attorney General Thomas Lazar. Moreover, a local medical examiner says physicians are so rushed -- they spend no more than 11 minutes on average with each patient -- they write prescriptions as a convenient, time-saving form of treatment. These problems probably have much to do with why patients filed more than 11,000 complaints with the California...