HEALTH COURTS-- IMPROVING MEDICAL INJURY COMPENSATION AND PATIENT SAFETY
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Why Does America Need Health Courts?
- The current medical liability system fails both patients and providers.
- Patients lose because few patients are compensated and those that do generally endure years of litigation.
- Physicians and other healthcare providers lose because they receive mixed signals on the appropriate standard of care, encouraging defensive medicine and adding to healthcare costs.
- Society loses because patient safety efforts, which require candor about mistakes and near misses, are stymied by legal fear.
More Information About Health Courts:
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CG Healthcare Forum |
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 4/1-4/3: Health Care Reform and Patient Safety: Challenges & Opportunities for Medicine and the Law (Laramie, Wyoming) » more |
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Why Health Courts? |
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Professor Michelle Mello of the Harvard School of Public Health discusses the benefits of health courts, including better compensation for patients. » Listen to podcast |
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Health Courts Brochure |
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