Malpractice

JAMA on the effect of malpractice

June 2, 2005

Costly Insurance Fuels Defensive Medicine, but Not Relocation In May 2003, Dr. David M. Studdert, from Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, and colleagues surveyed 824 Pennsylvania-based physicians who worked in six specialties at high risk of litigation (emergency medicine, general surgery, orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, obstetrics/gynecology, and radiology). Pennsylvania was chosen because of dramatically [...]

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Health courts

May 4, 2005

I will never leave this issue – because this is the real solution to malpractice. Let Doctors Think Like Doctors “Special health courts might let doctors think more like doctors again and less like lawyers,” said Daniel Henninger, Deputy Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page, endorsing Common Good’s proposal on the Nightly Business [...]

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The reality gap

March 29, 2005

Finally, a brilliant essay on the vegatative state. Terri Schiavo and the Reality Gap It is through the lens of my father’s death that I have watched the Terri Schiavo case in horror. First is the Reality Gap. Medical marvels that can save lives have also blurred the line between life and death. But since [...]

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Lawyerly comments

March 18, 2005

One pleasure of blogging comes from the comments we receive. GruntDoc has received numerous comments (many from one lawyer) on a recent malpractice rant – Texas MedMal in the News Having a lawyer and a law student in the family, I often have discussions about the differing viewpoints that our professions take on issues. This [...]

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Special health courts – the debate

March 17, 2005

Now this is interesting – The Doctor’s Court? Apparently, magazine Legal Affairs sponsors weekly debates on legal issues. This week’s debate focuses on special health courts. The participants: Philip K. Howard is Founder and Chair of Common Good and the author of The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America. Stephanie Mencimer is [...]

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Comments on special health courts

February 4, 2005

I know my spam filter is all screwed up. It thought Rangel was a porn site or something (insert huge grin). Chris makes this important comment: Another benefit of special medical courts would be that they could be set up in each state thus bypassing the Constitutional problem of over-reaching Federal power which is generally [...]

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Special health courts

February 3, 2005

Common Good directed me to this interesting column about malpractice. The author believes that President Bush has missed an opportunity to propose truly creative solutions: Better Justice: Bush’s Missed Opportunity As I believe this link will degenerate over time, I will quote liberally: Unless radically revised, the malpractice bill will once again die in the [...]

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Thomas Sowell on malpractice

January 25, 2005

Medical lawsuit diagnosis When a friend told me recently he was to undergo a painful medical procedure to see if he has cancer, it reminded me of a time years ago when I faced a similar prospect. The testing in my case would have painful and risked infection. Fortunately, it was a two-part procedure. The [...]

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Special Health Courts

January 21, 2005

Long time readers know that I admire Common Good’s approach to tort reform. Apparently the NY Times had good things to say on their editorial page a couple of weeks ago – unfortunately I missed it and am not willing to pay to read the entire editorial. Common Good comments – New York Times: It’s [...]

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NY Times on malpractice limits

January 14, 2005

A Push in States to Curb Malpractice Costs As state legislative sessions open across the country this week, Republican governors and lawmakers in many states are mounting major campaigns to control medical malpractice insurance premiums by limiting civil litigation. In Georgia, Missouri, Washington and more than a dozen other states, Republican legislators have made malpractice [...]

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