The Crisis is the Amount of Medical Malpractice, Not the Number of Malpractice Lawsuits

Early this year, the American Association for Justice, the nation’s premier trial law organization, put out it’s report Medical Negligence: The Role of America’s Civil Justice System in Protecting Patients’ Rights. This report relies upon pub… Read More
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Secrecy Protects Doctors With Long Histories of Malpractice

The Kansas City Star is reporting on the changes in recent Federal regulations that prohibit journalists and others from using information contained in public databases to identify physicians with dozens of instances of medical malpractice and violat… Read More
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Irrational Insanity: While Board Given More Power to Discipline Doctors, They Allow Felon to Continue Practicing

The Missouri Board of Healing Arts, the entity that disciplines doctors in Missouri, has been given new powers by the legislature, and those changes to the law have now gone into effect, reports the St. Louis Post Dispatch. That’s a good thing. Amo… Read More
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