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Sunday, June 04 2006 @ 05:13 PM EDT Contributed by: James Views: 730
Medical Malpractice--One Doctor’s Personal Experiences
This item was posted on RiskList by Anne Kramer at Anderson, Kill & Olick, highly regarded as one of America’s premier policyholder counsel firms. It is reproduced here with Anne’s kind permission.
Subject: RE: Your Med Mal post on risk list
I sent the BW article [MedProLaw.org poster’s note: BW is Business Week] article to a friend who is a family practitioner and OEM in the midwest. Some of you might be interested in his response:
Saturday, May 13 2006 @ 12:59 PM EDT Contributed by: James Views: 665
New England Journal of Medicine
May 11,2006
Claims, Errors, and Compensation in Medical Malpractice Litigation
In this national study of 1452 closed claims, physician reviewers found no evidence of medical errors in 37 percent. Most claims, however, did not result in payment to the plaintiffs. Claims not associated with errors accounted for only 13 to 16 percent of the total costs. See original article in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Monday, May 08 2006 @ 03:59 PM EDT Contributed by: James Views: 982
(CBS) It was a nagging cough that first sent Chuck Pandrea's wife Janet to her family doctor in Florida. She was then referred a specialist.
"It will be four years Sunday that she died," Chuck Pandrea says of his wife. "April 2nd. And to this day, I keep waiting for her, for her to walk in the door," he says, wiping back tears.
"He confirmed that she had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the very early stages. And the sooner we could start treatment, the better it would be," he says of the doctor.
Janet was told she needed chemotherapy.
"I went with her every time to, to the treatments. And she'd be sitting in that chair just religiously thinking it's going to make her feel better, make her better. And it didn't happen again," Pandrea says.
Monday, May 08 2006 @ 03:51 PM EDT Contributed by: James Views: 604
ABSTRACT: The conventional wisdom is that malpractice premiums have steadily risen.
and now constitute a crisis for medical practice. The best available data suggest otherwise.
Marc Rodwin
Friday, April 21 2006 @ 05:19 AM EDT Contributed by: James Views: 2255
LINKS TO THIS PETITION WERE LISTED PROMINENTLY IN DRUDGE REPORT ON APRIL 21,2006
THE SPONSORS OF THE PETITION ARE
Contact Us
Doctors for Medical Liability Reform
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Washington, DC 20002
Phone: 1-877-9REFORM
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Thursday, April 13 2006 @ 08:03 AM EDT Contributed by: James Views: 439
Book Review
The Medical Malpractice Myth, by Tom Baker,
214 pp, $22.50, ISBN 0-226-03648-0, Chicago,
III,University of Chicago Press, 2005.
THIS IS A BOOK WITH A MISSION, BY AN
author with a-point of view. In a very
readable way Tom Baker sets up, then
knocks down, what he terms the "medical
malpractice myth," a partisan campaign
promoted by organized medicine,
health insurers, businesses, and
the Bush Administration. Its components,
he says, are these:
Monday, March 27 2006 @ 02:13 PM EST Contributed by: James Views: 437
Amy Widman
Center for Justice & Democracy
(publication forthcoming by the Pace Law Review)
Over the past few decades, there have been repeated proposals to remove medical
malpractice claims from the civil justice system entirely. These claims, most of which
are negligence claims, are traditionally brought in state courts and appear before a jury.
The proposals typically focus on removing the claims from the jury and creating alternate
tribunals for adjudication. Usually vague promises that an alternative system will be
more fair to plaintiffs and/or will provide more compensation accompany such proposals.
To date, the proposals have all been struck down. However, the current administration
has made tort reform a priority and once again the topic of specialized health courts is up
for discussion.
