Word: subpeona
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MAGNITUDE of the monetary resources wasted on insurance and legal protection pales in comparison with the national figures for so-called "defensive medicine." In anticipation of the malpractice subpeona, doctors order extraneous testing procedures to illustrate their competence by covering all possible contingencies. AMA estimates place the 1984 national expenditure on such testing between $17 and 40 billion...
Sadly, though, the proposal is ludicrously weak. Although the ordinance would give the five-member panel power of subpeona to compel witnesses to testify in its investigations, its conclusions will not be binding on the police force. Furthermore, the city manager--the same person who appoints the department's leadership--will select all the board's members...
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