“The compassion of a society can be judged by the measures it takes to reduce the impact of
tragedy on its members,” Mr. Justice Horace Krever wrote “formidable task” of proving fault in …

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No-fault systems of dealing with medical error have been mooted but are often criticised for
removing or blunting professional accountability. An analysis of contemporary health care …

PROFESSOR GRAD INTRODUCES his article with his oft-repeated thesis that" the so-called
medical malpractice crisis [is] in reality a crisis of insurance availability/'This insurance …

Doctors amputating incorrect limbs, prescribing the wrong drugs, or simply misdiagnosing
coughs-medical errors still occur too often. This is an unfortunate truth in both the United …

According to a recent Institute of Medicine report, as many as 98,000 Americans die each
year as a result of medical error—a figure higher than deaths from automobile accidents …

Concerns about the efficiency of tort:• how little money goes to the patient because of high
legal and administrative costs (reports estimate up to 50% of the costs of the lawsuit)• only a …

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The death of seventeen-year-old heart transplant patient Jesica Santillan at Duke University
Hospital due to a mismatch of blood types sent shockwaves across the country and brought …

Americans are experienced at fi xing blame when things go wrong. Our political system lets
us throw out the leaders whose lack of judgment, skill, or honesty seems to have been the …