In the event of medical malpractice, the insurance would allow a patient to make an immediate claim for recovery of damages. It would eliminate the need to become involved in protracted legal action against a physician, and leave the ...

Twenty Clinical Innovations to Build Patient-Doctor Trust ...
Health care may not be a traditional market for major procedures such as coronary bypass, although increasing numbers of medical tourists are going abroad for heart bypass surgery. In the case of minor illnesses, consumers are ...

Chief judge plans new effort to see how Madison County courts ...
Decaria said he felt the battle over tort reform -- limiting punitive damages in medical malpractice lawsuits -- was so emotionally draining that many legislators shy away from discussing health care issues today. ...

Bend medical practice values patients time, restores quality ...
Bachelor Butte Internal Medicine, located on Bend s Westside, is a medical practice that puts many common complaints of doctors appointments to rest and improves the patient-doctor relationship. Many of the common reasons patients ...

Chief judge plans new effort to see how Madison County courts ...
A new attempt to address the political and legal debate over medical malpractice litigation in Madison County comes from what is perhaps an unlikely source. The battle over the issue that made the news almost daily in 2005 largely ...

A Consumers Guide to the Medical Malpractice Epidemic
Unlike a grisly homicide or a vivid train wreck, you won t find reports of medical malpractice displayed on the nightly television news shows. There are no reporters or TV crews to be found in the antiseptic shadows of a surgical ...