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Health Courts Could Restore ‘Medical Justice’

Paul Barringer
National Medical Association News, Spring 2005

Common Good general counsel Paul Barringer discusses the inconsistency of juries in medical malpractice trials, and the inability of the current system to adequately compensate patients. The growing support for special health courts has spread throughout the nation to include more than eighty of the “most prominent leaders in American health care and law.” Health courts, Barringer emphatically states, would restore reliability and trust to health care and ensure that “medical justice will prevail.”

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