SINGAPORE - Some doctors have stopped giving steroid injections to patients while others say they are charging more for this relatively common jab, an online survey by two prominent medical groups found.
The Singapore Medical Association, which has close to 6,000 members, and the College of Family Physicians, with more than 2,400 members, conducted the online poll after orthopaedic surgeon Lim Lian Arn was fined $100,000 in January for not telling a patient about the possible, though rare, side effects of such an injection.
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