Research shows doctors and their families are less likely to follow guidelines about medicine. Why do the medically well-informed comply less often?

Following established guidelines about prescription drugs would seem to be an obvious course of action, especially for the professionals that do the prescribing. Yet doctors and their family members are less likely than other people to comply with those guidelines, according to a large-scale study co-authored by an MIT economist.

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