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Dedicated Health Courts Can End Malpractice Crisis

Philip K. Howard
Washington Examiner, May 11, 2007

In an op-ed in the Washington Examiner, Common Good Chair Philip K. Howard details how health courts can help restore trust and reliability to our bleeding health care system:

"Restoring trust in American justice can’t be accomplished by tweaking this system. A functioning system of justice must aspire to deliberate choices, binding from one case to the next. Reliability is crucial. Providers must know what’s expected of them and must trust the system to distinguish good care from bad care. What’s needed is something entirely new: specialized health care courts." » more