Having been through two medical malpractice lawsuits, I think you overstate the frequency and ease of filing. You may phone a lawyer at the "slightest negative side effect form a drug or procedure" but as you obviously discovered, you have to have both cause and harm to file or win. The reality of high malpractice insurance is that there are a lot of medical errors made, and insurance companies are greedy.
>From the article : Dead by mistake "Motor vehicle deaths are the No. 1 cause of accidental death in the Unites States, with more than 43,600 deaths in 2006, according to the CDC. The next three causes poisoning, firearms and falls account for 90,000 deaths, combined. But it is clear that if medical errors and infections were better tracked, they would easily top the list. In fact, a visit to your doctor or a hospital is twice as likely to result in your death as is a drive on America's highways." http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/deadbymistake/6555095.html On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Scott Stroz <boyz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Why is malpractice so high? Well, partly because there are doctors out > there who are not good at their jobs, but mostly because we live in a > litigious society, and even the slightest negative side effect form a > drug or procedure has us on the phone with a lawye ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:326611 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
