Your Reputation On the Line
FMA Magazine Fall Volume 2009, Number 4; Pages 26 to 29 By: Jeffrey Segal, MD, JD, FACS
Demands For Refunds on Dental Work? Yes, they ARE serious!
The dentist (or plastic surgeon) has done the work. The job was properly done. To give the patient back the fees under duress (threat of medical malpractice suit) is tantamount to robbery.
Physicians Take The Patient’s Side
Ask a dozen people what one word describes a doctor, and you’ll likely get a couple dozen answers. Caring and Healer come up a lot. Ask a dozen doctors why they went into medicine, and the number one answer is that they wanted to help … Read more
Reid & Baucus in the China Shop; First, Do No Harm!
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is now threatening to employ Reconciliation, a procedural budget maneuver, to push Baucus’ proposed Health Care Reform legislation through, bypassing normal methods and avoiding a potential filibuster. But this bill, which currently has over 500 amendments and is still in … Read more
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.
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