Tweet Not — Focus on Tort Reforms!
This is just one of the reasons why Tort Reform is so foundational to health care reform… The patient’s focus should be on getting well, rather than Tweeting potential basis for a lawsuit to the world…he patient’s focus should be on getting well, rather than Tweeting potential basis for a lawsuit to the world.
Liars On Notice: Accountability Emergent; Google Ordered to Identify Sources
… all too often there isn’t even an injured patient in the first place! Any disgruntled employee or mischievous graffiti artist has been able to make false and vapid claims against a doctor or practice, and then hide behind a cloak of Internet anonymity.
110,000 Doctors Can’t Be Wrong
Though the AMA has been a very vocal voice in medicine in the past, suggesting that their voice represents physicians, the numbers tell a different truth.
Dr. Jeff Segal on KevinMD
Medical Justice Founder and CEO Jeff Segal, MD, JD, FACS recently published an article about Tort Reform on the popular blog KevinMD.
Tort Reform Snowball Getting Bigger
As the healthcare debate continues, more pundits, experts and legislatures are coming to the conclusion that real, substantial tort reform must be included in any final reform package. Here are just a few of the comments from around the US just yesterday;
Trickling Down Tort Reforms
When we look at all the ways in which Tort Reform would trickle down, it amounts to a raging river of savings for patients and their insurance providers.
Prediction 2009: Tort Reform Within Reach
VEIN Magazine Fall 2009; Page 60 – 61 By: Jeffrey Segal, MD, JD, FACS Read the entire issue here: http://www.veindirectory.org/issues/v2i4.pdf Or view Dr. Segal’s article (only) using the link below: Download vein_mag_v2i4_58-59_tort_reform.pdf Download vein_mag_v2i4_58-59_tort_reform
Online Libel — Freedom of Speech Does Not Protect Anonymity
The Constitution is, more than anything else, a set of limits placed upon our government. It is NOT carte-blanche for one citizen to damage another’s reputation.
The Demonizing of Doctors — An Op-Ed
Your plumber charges $150-$250 to come out in a work van and run a snake through your drain. You pay him, and are glad the sewer isn’t backing up anymore. But if the doctor charges $50-80 for a visit … he’s ripping you off?
Kennedy’s Passing Ensures Health Care Reform
Some may suggest that the passing of this patriarch of the Senate leaves the future of health care reform up in the air, but it seems far more likely that just the opposite is true.
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