Seeking a way out

Article Abstract:

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsors two research projects for developing alternatives to the medical malpractice and tort liability system. In tort cases, injured patients only receive about 40% of any settlement, thus most of the settlement is spent on legal fees. An administrative agency linked to physician licensing or quality improvement programs could evaluate and decide malpractice cases. Thus, patients and physicians would benefit from a less adversarial, more efficient and less costly system of settling malpractice suits.

Innovations, Malpractice, Medical malpractice

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Breast cancer still top liability risk; cost of claims rising

Article Abstract:

The largest number of malpractice liability suits are related to breast cancer, according to the Physician Insurers Assn of America Data Sharing Project, a database of malpractice claims. Failure to diagnose breast cancer, especially in women under fifty years old, resulted in average payments of $307,000 in the last half of 1994. In addition to radiologists who are being sued for misreading mammograms, numerous suits are filed against obstetricians, generalists and surgeons,

Cases, Medical professions, Statistics, Breast cancer

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