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The Malpractice Mess

Editorial
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 28, 2005

An editorial in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch calls for massive reform in the tort system, which has proven incapable of hindering medical errors or compensating patients in an adequate and timely manner. The editorial praises Common Good’s proposal for special health courts which would make the whole process “more predictable,” and concludes that “[i]t’s time to toss out the whole system and apply some common sense.”

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