The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, VA - Nov 17, 2009
...The kicker? These incentives are not available to any state with a cap on damages or attorneys' fees in tort claims. Virginia, you're out...
Opinion - Kerry Picket: The AMA still does not get it
The Washington Times, DC - Nov 17, 2009
...The AMA did adopt a resolution in Houston last week addressing the much needed Medical Liability Reform for doctors, but this happened eight years after the AMA helped push the misnamed Patients' Bill of Rights legislation through Congress...
Opinion - Mark Moretti: Health care bill's solutions represent opposite of founding fathers' vision
Newark Advocate, Newark, OH - Nov 17, 2009
...Tort reform has been begged for by doctors who pay costly malpractice premiums and sometimes order tests to protect themselves from lawsuits as much as for patients...
Tort reform: Does saying "I'm sorry" help?
Medscape Today - Nov 16, 2009
...Yet physicians are reluctant to apologize after adverse events because their words can be used in malpractice litigation as admissions of fault. Apology, from the physician's point of view, is a slippery slope...
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