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By now, it's clear we think the country's medical liability situation needs a drastic makeover. Yet, it doesn't seem that taking care of the major drug companies helps any. Priorities, people! In a pointed critique, Dan Hamburg--former U.S. Congressman and Executive Director of the non-profit Voice of the Environment--takes aim at Washington protecting drug makers in the latest Department of Defense Appropriations bill. Read [Santa Monica Mirror]
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"This election destroyed a popular Karl Rove myth. The truth is that trial attorneys are winning, attacks on trial attorneys are backfiring and opponents of the civil justice system are losing."
The CEO of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America said.
"We have discovered that virtually all patients are willing to sign a contract in which they agree not to sue their doctors on frivolous grounds."
Jeffrey Segal, M.D, a board-certified neurosurgeon and the founder and president of Medical Justice Services, Inc., said.
"Low-risk obstetrics has been done here for 60 years, but not anymore."
Carl Hanson, chief operating officer of the county-run Minidoka Memorial Hospital in southern Idaho hospital's, explained as they get out of the baby business. Read
"I have children, and I don't know where they're at."
Rosalinda Elison, a former patient at the UC Irvine Medical Center’s fertility clinic, said after learning that that her eggs and embryos had been stolen and implanted in another woman who then gave birth to twins.
Read more You Don't Say, here.
$4.6 million
New York state grants available to expand the use of electronic medical records. Such initiatives have been hailed nationally as a way to cut medication errors, save money and improve patient safety. LINK
$700,000
Amount raised by Fairness and Accountability in Insurance Reform to oppose malpractice limits in Arizona. LINK
$450,000
Amount the Arizona Medical Association says Arizonans for Access to Health Care has raised to decide whether to push for montetary limits on lawsuits. LINK
Read more CRISIS BY NUMBERS, here.
Do physicians really think that tort reform is about them? Did you not read Bush's proposed HEALTH act? It is primarily for drug companies, insurers, and medical product producers. They just throw physicians on there as the face because they know those aren't popular.
The funny thing is, the physicians are the least likely to gain from most tort reform out of those groups. Yet they are the ones screaming the loudest for it.
Posted by: Matt | January 26, 2006 at 02:16 PM