Jeffrey Segal, MD, JD - Medical Justice

Physicians Take The Patient’s Side

August 15, 2024September 24, 2009 by Jeffrey Segal, MD, JD

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 people… and they still do. Every day doctors see people who are hurting and need help. Sometimes it’s a simple thing — an antibiotic or a couple stitches. Other times, it may be a complex paradigm with many mitigating factors. Regardless, people come to the doctor for help, cures, easing of pain… and in most cases, the doctor is able to provide the cure for what ails them. Doctors dedicate their entire lives to making people’s lives better.

Reid & Baucus in the China Shop; First, Do No Harm!

August 15, 2024September 23, 2009 by Jeffrey Segal, MD, JD

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 nearly constant revision, has no provision for any sort of … Read more

Tweet Not — Focus on Tort Reforms!

August 15, 2024September 22, 2009 by Jeffrey Segal, MD, JD

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

August 15, 2024September 9, 2009 by Jeffrey Segal, MD, JD

… 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

August 15, 2024September 9, 2009 by Jeffrey Segal, MD, JD

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

August 15, 2024September 4, 2009 by Jeffrey Segal, MD, JD

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

August 15, 2024September 4, 2009 by Jeffrey Segal, MD, JD

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

August 15, 2024September 2, 2009 by Jeffrey Segal, MD, JD

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

August 15, 2024September 1, 2009 by Jeffrey Segal, MD, JD

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

August 15, 2024August 28, 2009 by Jeffrey Segal, MD, JD

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.

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