The issue of defensive medicine has come into the public spotlight following several incidents of doctors being excessively penalised for their practices.
This has led Health Minister Gan Kim Yong to acknowledge in Parliament on April 1 that certain recent "concerns, if unresolved, will, over time, engender the practice of defensive medicine".
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