As promised, here is the reaction I’ve found in the medical blogsophere (at least the part of it that I have been able to discover thus far).

GruntDoc says nice things about Kevin (as he should) but argues the show used a bad example of defensive medicine.

The Medical Quack comes up with the same appraisal in his entry, “Defensive Medicine: Cautious or Costly? – ABCNEWS” And over my med body! agrees with GruntDoc.

White Coat Rants starts what promises to be a series on defensive medicine. He takes the same ground as everyone else, that the ER’s decision was justifiable. He adds a second part disagreeing with the father/physician who wrote a comment to the blog that ate Manhattan–a medical blog I’d never read before. And one who also has the same opinion.