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Originally posted by baltassoc
There are several explanations that do not involve the necessity of "tort reform" and which may actually be exacerbated by "tort reform."
The medical community imposes very daunting and unnecessarily stressful conditions on many of its doctors. There is simply no reason for the length of shifts doctors are expected to work. Fatigue increases errors, but the machisimo of the profession prevents reform.
Physicians (like lawyers) are remarkablely reluctant to discipline their own until way, way too late. Most claims come from a small minority of doctors. Medicine needs to recognize problems with practicioners sooner, intervene sooner, and yank licenses sooner.
Physicians are simply not paying enough attention. 25 years ago, anesthesiologists had some of the highest malprace insurance rates; now they have some of the lowest. The difference: anestesiologists collectively undertook to study why and how errors were being made and took steps to prevent them as a profession. Why haven't other doctors done the same? Because its easier to bitch about lawyers than to actually fix what's wrong and stop killing people.
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According the article RT cited, Tort reform has worked wonders in California and is needed in the rest of the country. Did you not read the article:
http://www.sfms.org/sfm/sfm603h.htm
And even though things are much better in California I still think medical malpratice isurance rates are still really high. They are just insane in states that don't have some Tort reform.
