Las Vegas Sun, NV - Mar 31, 2009
...Health care leaders say the initiative has done that and more in Nevada. They commissioned a study that concluded the cap on noneconomic damages is saving roughly $381 million a year in medical costs. The study showed the cap also has stabilized the medical profession and improved access to health care here...
Bill would include patients in Nevada physician discipline process
Reno Gazette, NV - Mar 31, 2009
...The bill would also call for a voluntary "remediation agreement" between the board and doctors on complaints or risky behavior that don't meet the criteria for malpractice...
US grapples with solutions to preventable medical errors
CMAJ, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - Mar 31, 2009
...In the 1980s, the American Society of Anesthesiologists scoured every claim filed against its members to identify unsafe practices and developed new guidelines to reduce errors. The anesthesiologists are now among the safest practitioners, and their insurance rates have fallen...
Plaintiffs bar pushes Capitol Hill agenda
Law.com, New York, NY - Mar 31, 2009
...The House Judiciary Committee had a preview of the coming fight last week, when a subcommittee held a hearing on legislation that would allow active-duty members of the military to sue the federal government for medical malpractice...
Melanoma detector
ScienCentral News, New York, NY - Mar 30, 2009
...In fact, melanoma misdiagnosis is the second most common cause of cancer malpractice suits in the US, behind breast cancer...
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