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Opinion - Mark Haas, MD: Reforming medical malpractice system will cut costs USA TODAY - Dec 31, 2008 ...One potential cost-cutting measure that was not discussed is reform of the medical malpractice system, which as it stands benefits primarily trial lawyers while adding billions of dollars to the country's health care budget... Medical malpractice news
State's malpractice crisis continues The Bulletin, Philadelphia, PA - Dec 30, 2008 ...Both the Hospital and Health System Association of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Medical Society, a doctor’s organization, have filed suits against the state during the past few weeks. They seek to obtain hundreds of millions in unspent dollars they say should be devoted to a state fund that subsidizes medical malpractice insurance... Progress made at VA, but more work needed The Southern, Carbondale, IL - Dec 30, 2008 ...The bill would require doctors applying to the VA to disclose all past malpractice payments and disciplinary actions against them and any ongoing investigations or outstanding allegations, as well as to send a written request to any state board where they have ever held a license ... 3rd Circuit Slashes Punitives, Imposes 1-1 Ratio Law.com, Legal Intelligencer, CA - Dec 30, 2008 ...the clearest sign to date that large punitive damages awards face an increasingly hostile audience on appeal because of a string of decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court ... Allen tries again with medical malpractice bill Arizona Capitol Times, Phoenix, AZ - Dec 29, 2008 ..."Republicans by and large tend to be supportive of tort form. With the potential passing of the guard on the Ninth Floor to a Republican, we might have a better opportunity to have it passed and signed."... Medical malpractice news
Opinion - Philip Harnett Corboy Jr.: Limits are unfair to malpractice victims Daily Herald, Arlington Heights, IL - Dec 29, 2008 ...While your editorial incorrectly states that caps have brought more doctors to the area and reduced premiums, the fact is that the positive climate for doctors has resulted from strong, long suppressed insurance reforms, which were included in the legislation... Opinion - Les Weisbrod: Opposing view: Focus on medical mistakes USAToday - Dec 29, 2008 ...A study from Harvard's School of Public Health found 97% of medical malpractice claims had merit, proving only those with real injuries seek any recourse... Opinion: Reform may be needed, but it won't come fast and it won't come easy The News Journal, Wilmington, DE - Dec 28, 2008 ...Prevention, wellness, health information technology and malpractice reforms will only save small amounts of money. The big savings will come from tinkering with Medicare payments or limiting services... Medical malpractice news
Texas Medical Board falling behind on complaints as workload grows The Dallas Morning News, TX - Dec 26, 2008 ...Medical malpractice reform enacted five years ago succeeded in cutting the number of lawsuits against doctors and increasing the number of physicians working in Texas... Year in review: Health care Long Island Business News, NY - Dec 26, 2008 ...Meanwhile, there were signs of a shortage of primary care physicians and a dwindling number of obstetricians as high medical malpractice rates forced more doctors to stop delivering babies. All of this comes as aging Baby Boomers are expected to put even more demands on the health care system in the coming years... Democrats get bucks from trial lawyers, but redo on tort "reform" unlikely Dallas Observer, TX - Dec 24, 2008 ...In fact, trial lawyers seem to have a more modest game plan. Nelson Roach, the president of the Texas Trial Lawyers' Association and one of the Democratic Party's most prolific donors, says that his group does hope to revisit caps on pain and suffering damages in medical lawsuits. Though he would like to abolish those caps altogether, he'd settle for at least tying them to inflation... Medical malpractice news
Pa. governor's top health-care aide stepping down Observer-Reporter, Washington, PA (Associated Press) - Dec 24, 2008 The director of Gov. Ed Rendell's efforts to expand health insurance to low-income children and adults, help doctors pay their malpractice bills and modernize Pennsylvania's health care system is stepping down... Nursing homes exempt from rule The Ledger, Lakeland, FL - Dec 23, 2008 ...Florida's "right to know" constitutional amendment that lets patients check records of medical mistakes by doctors and hospitals doesn't apply to nursing homes, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Tuesday... Medical malpractice news
Rendell's top aide on health care to step down Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Dec 23, 2008 Rosemarie B. Greco, who has spearheaded Gov. Rendell's health-care initiatives from easing doctors' soaring medical-malpractice premiums to expanding coverage to the uninsured, will leave the administration at the end of the year... Opinion - Dan Margolies: Jackson County on tort reform group's watch list Kansas City Star, MO - Dec 23, 2008 ...the report is worth a read, if for no other reason than to see which jurisdictions, in the view of the corporate world, are places where justice has run amok. The tort reform association’s top judicial hellholes this year: 1. West Virginia; 2. South Florida; 3. Cook County, Ill... Medical malpractice news
Tracking the suits West Virginia MetroNews, Charleston, WV - Dec 22, 2008 ...One way possible way to track these civil cases is to charge an extra filing fee on them. Jenkins explains that the Legislature did this during the medical liability reform back in 2001... Lead paint case the latest battleground in war over limit on non-economic damages Maryland Daily Record, Baltimore, MD - Dec 21, 2008 ...He cites a 2005 Wisconsin Supreme Court decision that struck down that state’s $350,000 cap on non-economic damages in medical-malpractice cases. The court said the limit violated Wisconsin’s constitutional guarantee of equal protection ... Opinion - Laura Crites: If we are to reform health care, we must ask different questions Star Bulletin, Honolulu, HI - Dec 21, 2008 ...And malpractice insurance would likely drop. Taking this approach, an integrative approach to health care works better and costs less... Editorial: Court must protect malpractice limits Daily Herald, Arlington Heights, IL - Dec 20, 2008 ...Once blamed for driving up malpractice insurance premiums and forcing doctors out of Illinois, a 2005 state law limited these damages to $500,000 for doctors and $1 million for hospitals... Lawsuit to block transfer from Patients Compensation Fund dismissed Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee, WI - Dec 19, 2008 ...In his ruling, Circuit Judge Michael Nowakowski said the transfer from the fund, created in 1975 to control soaring costs of medical malpractice insurance, was legal... Medical malpractice news
Opinion - Travis Akin: Doctor crisis could return Belleville News Democrat, IL - Dec 19, 2008 ...No one can accurately predict what the court will do, which is why Illinois residents need to be ready to take up the fight for meaningful medical malpractice reforms again... Budget office studies impact of healthcare policies Reuters - Dec 18, 2008 ...President George W. Bush has been an advocate for limiting medical malpractice lawsuit awards against doctors as a way of lowering the costs of healthcare. The CBO analysis looked at capping noneconomic damages at $250,000 and punitive damages at $500,000 along with other rules... Editorial: Unhealthy lawsuits Investor's Business Daily, Los Angeles, CA - Dec 18, 2008 ...So that doctors can practice the healing arts without resorting to defensive medicine and setting in motion its ill effects, our civil justice system needs to be reformed in a way that discourages both abusive malpractice suits and absurdly high jury awards... Editorial: Raid on fund wrong Pierce County Herald, Ellsworth, WI - Dec 17, 2008 ...So the Wisconsin Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund was created, but it’s now in jeopardy and needs the public’s support. The fund pays medical liability claims exceeding the primary layer of malpractice insurance coverage health care professionals in the state are required to maintain by law... Medical malpractice news
Hospital can keep baby unit closed The Tennessean, Nashville, TN - Dec 18, 2008 ...talked about high malpractice insurance costs and low reimbursements leading more obstetricians to consolidate practices in fewer locations to reduce costs. "It's not about not providing . . . indigent care," he said. "It's about being able to continue to exist."... On-call neurosurgeon plan would cost Palm Beach County $1.1 million a year Palm Beach Post, FL - Dec 18, 2008 ...Palm Beach County, unlike Miami-Dade and Broward, does not have a public safety-net hospital, which would indemnify the physicians against medical malpractice suits, or have public dollars available to pay doctors to be on call... Editorial: State must do a better job of supporting its emergency patients The Times West Virginian, Fairmont, WV - Dec 18, 2008 ...The state also got a “C” for its medical liability environment. It has made some medical liability reforms, including additional liability protections for federally mandated emergency care, ACEP states... Medical malpractice news
Opinion - Oglesby Young: Screening malpractice suits is lowering costs Concord Monitor, NH - Dec 17, 2008 ...The new statute requires that all medical malpractice claims be heard by a panel consisting of a judge, lawyer and a physician expert prior to moving on to an expensive jury trial... Opinion - Kenneth E. Raske: Unbalanced health care custs will hurt all of us Times Union, Albany, NY - Dec 17, 2008 ...The health care cuts that Gov. David Paterson has proposed — which he has said on numerous occasions will cause great pain — will fall on hospitals that struggle with shrinking reimbursements, soaring medical malpractice costs, minimal access to capital, and the swelling ranks of the uninsured in the best of economic times... Florida doctors' shortage trend only to worsen, report reveals Naples Daily News, FL - Dec 16, 1008 ...already 40 percent of his colleagues have already stopped delivering babies. The number is a reflection of exorbitant medical malpractice premiums that OB/GYN’s faced a few years ago which forced many to drop deliveries, he said... Report: Southeast Texas courts improve, but still on 'Hellhole' watch Southeast Texas Record, Beaumont, TX - Dec 16, 2008 ...Since Proposition 12 limited noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases, insurance rates for doctor's has dropped, fewer claims have been filed, and a record number of new doctors have been licensed in the state, according to the report... Medical liability insurer ProAssurance buys Houston's Mid-Continent agency Insurance Journal, CA - Dec 16, 2008 ...The transaction is expected to close in January 2009... Medical malpractice news
Obstetrics crisis growing in Pa. The Bulletin, Philadephia, PA - Dec 16, 2008 ...Also according to the AMA, as well as the Harvard School for Public Health, a rampant lawsuit industry and related liability insurance costs are the common denominators behind the wholesale closures of critical medical facilities as well as the physician shortages... Editorial: Close down judicial hellholes for good The Baltimore Examiner, MD - Dec 16, 2008 ...The rankings include states like West Virginia and local jurisdictions, including President-elect Barack Obama’s home, Cook County, Ill., which is third this year for throwing out a 2005 state law limiting malpractice awards and a “surge” in new asbestos claims... Opinion - Ned Lips: Solving the healthcare crisis The Moderate Voice - Dec 15, 2008 ...For this work, they would be immune from medical malpractice liability, eliminating the extreme costs of that coverage for this higher-risk work. Mistakes would be addressed by a government medical panel... Medical malpractice news
Illinois State Medical Society optimistic that med mal caps law will be upheld Illinois Business Journal, Alton, IL - Dec 15, 2008 ... At issue is the constitutionality of Illinois’ Medical Liability Reform Law that was passed by the state legislature in 2005... Opinion - Matthew J. Brouillette: People as pawns in Rendell's political game The Bulletin, Philadelphia, PA - Dec 15, 2008 ...With Senate Republicans refusing to acquiesce to his plan to dramatically expand state government’s role in health care, the governor rejected a re-authorization of state subsidies for physicians’ medical malpractice insurance — which is required by law and expensive because trial attorneys can sue for unlimited amounts in Pennsylvania... Medical travel requires careful research The Morning Call, Allentown, PA - Dec 14, 2008 ...And be aware that if something goes wrong, you won't have the same legal options as in the United States. You'll have to abide by court systems in the host country, which aren't known for large malpractice awards like in the United States... Opinion - J. Lucas Koberda: We can't support defensive medicine Tallahassee Democrat, FL - Dec 13, 2008 ...Effective tort reform is needed to lower costs and improve patient care. In some countries, a no-fault-compensation system has been found to be effective in cost containment and reducing medical liability... Editorial: Making the patient worse The Augusta Chronicle, GA - Dec 13, 2008 ...Many doctors, frustrated by malpractice insurance costs and Medicare and Medicaid underpayments, are leaving the profession prematurely. Taking free-market incentives out of the system will only exacerbate the exodus... CNY has fewer doctors that deliver babies WSYR-TV, Syracuse, NY - Dec 12, 2008 ...Brown is part of a dying breed, because malpractice suits have made it prohibitively expensive for OB-GYNs to do their jobs... Medical malpractice news
Hospitals, doctors sue state over malpractice fund The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, PA (Associated Press) - Dec 11, 2008 Pennsylvania hospitals and doctors sued the state Thursday to obtain hundreds of millions in unspent dollars they say should be devoted to a state fund that helps doctors pay for medical malpractice insurance... Hospital group sues Pa. over malpractice insurance funding Philadelphia Business Journal, PA - Dec 11, 2008 ...In its petition filed at Commonwealth Court Thursday, HAP, a hospital trade group based in Harrisburg, Pa., said the state has violated state law and the Pennsylvania Constitution by failing to transfer dedicated cigarette tax funds to the Mcare fund to pay for Mcare abatement... Opinions - Tiger Joyce; Stanton R. Brown, MD: Prognosis for Illinois medical torts is quite uncertain Wall Street Journal, NY - Dec 11, 2008 ...in seeking to balance the rights of individuals who deserve compensation with those of all citizens of Illinois seeking access to life-saving, high-risk medical care, the law merely imposes limits on noneconomic damages as has been done in Texas, California, Mississippi, Colorado and other states... In lawsuit reform fight, trial lawyers "want to win at all costs" Face the State, CO - Dec 11, 2008 ...Pero warned that after decades of consistent reform, Colorado’s trial bar is reinvigorated and working with sympathetic Democrat majorities in both houses... Medical malpractice news
Business: Bob Turner Philadelphia Daily News, PA - Dec 11, 2008 ...Rein in malpractice costs for the region's doctors. "I'd say that's the biggest threat to health care," Turner said. "You're going to have doctors get trained at the hospitals here and then leave if this insurance situation doesn't improve... Opinion - Matthew J. Brouillette: Rendell's spending is for his own agenda Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Dec 11, 2008 ...With Senate Republicans resisting his plan to dramatically expand state government's role in health care, the governor rejected a reauthorization of state subsidies for medical-malpractice insurance, which is required by law... Arizona lawmaker to offer medical malpractice bill Tucson Citizen, AZ - Dec 10, 2008 A legislator is renewing a controversial proposal to make it harder to successfully sue emergency medical providers for alleged malpractice... Placebo effect: New survey gives life to ethical debate USA Today - Dec 10, 2008 ...Law professor Kolber says the AMA went too far. No cases of medical malpractice suits filed by patients who learned their doctors had deceived them by prescribing a placebo have been published, he says. But the AMA's ethics policy could change that... Despite budget hole, DHS wants big increase in state funding New Richmond News, WI - Dec 10, 2008 ...In November 2007 the Wisconsin Medical Society filed a lawsuit against the state of Wisconsin to stop the raid of $200 million from the state's Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund. That fund is designed to help keep medical malpractice premiums down and is is funded solely by state-mandated payments by physicians... Medical malpractice news
Pa. gets 'C+' grade on emergency care report card WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh, PA - Dec 9, 2008 ...Overall the state was ranked No. 8 in the nation by the American College of Emergency Physicians, but Pa.'s high malpractice payments earned a "D" grade and a national ranking of 38... Short on doctors, Florida's ERs rank 30th in nation, says report The News-Press, Fort Meyers, FL - Dec 9, 2008 ...The doctors' group urges the state to extend legal immunity to doctors who provide emergency care. That would damp the fear of malpractice, which physicians have cited as a reason for staying away from emergency medicine... Report: Mixed grades for state's emergency care Denver Business Journal, CO - Dec 9, 2008 ...On the plus side, the report card showed that Colorado led the nation for its medical liability environment, putting a $300,000 cap on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases... New York just average when it comes to emergency health care Legislative Gazette, Albany, NY - Dec 9, 2008 ...The state was one of the best in the nation in its disaster preparedness score, with an A-, but received a failing grade for medical liability... Report: N.J. emergency care earns a C+ The Star Ledger, Newark, NJ - Dec 9, 2008 ...New Jersey earns high marks for the quality of care in its emergency rooms, but gets a failing grade for its high liability premiums and malpractice awards, according to a report released today... State earns a C+ on emergency care report card Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN - Dec 9, 2008 ...Minnesota scored below average, a C-, in the category of medical liability environment and was graded down for having few liability reforms and its relatively high average malpractice award of $347,708 compared to the average across the states of $285,218... State's emergency care ranked 50th Tulsa World, OK - Dec 9, 2008 ...“The state deserves to be credited as being one of only six that provide some additional liability protections for (federally)-mandated emergency care,” the authors wrote... W.Va. gets C for emergency care The Charleston Gazette, WV - Dec 9, 2008 ...The report also commended West Virginia for improving its medical malpractice liability climate. The state had the eighth lowest average malpractice award in 2007... Opinion - Richard Connelly: Texas receives a gentlemen's C for its emergency rooms Houston Press, TX - Dec 9 2008 ...On the other hand, the state has "a healthy medical-liability environment." We're guessing that "a healthy medical-liability environment" might mean one thing to doctors and another thing to victims of medical malpractice... Wyoming receives D+ for emergency care KGWN-TV, Cheyenne, WY - Dec 9, 2008 ...The report evaluated categories like disaster preparedness, medical liability environment, and quality and patient safety environment... Md. emergency care ranks fourth in national study Southern Maryland Headline News - Dec 9, 2008 ...An A in quality and patient safety environment and a B in public health and injury prevention helped offset categories in which the state fared worse, such as medical liability environment, in which it earned a D-... Utah scores among top 5 states for ER care KSL, Salt Lake, UT - Dec 9, 2008 ...Cole also says Utah needs medical tort reform. The report card says medical liability insurance premiums are higher than average in Utah... Report card gives NM a D in emergency health care El Paso Times, TX (Associated Press) - Dec 9, 2008 ...The report said its average medical liability premiums are higher than the national average, it has not enacted expert witness rules and it lacks special liability protection for providers of emergency care... Medical malpractice news
Editorial: Our view on medical care: Sleep-deprived residents still pose risks for patients USA Today - Dec 9, 2008 ...That's a lot of money, but it's half the $3.5 billion in extra medical costs of treating drug-related injuries resulting from errors that occur each year, not to mention the cost in malpractice lawsuits and patient suffering that could be prevented... Georgia gets a C- for emergency health care WABE, Atlanta, GA - Dec 9, 2008 ...When it comes to medical liability laws Georgia ranks 4th in the nation with an 'A'. The report card says laws preventing frivolous lawsuits have lowered malpractice premiums and attracted doctors... Med-mal case includes rare punitive damages claim Law.com, CA (Daily Business Review) - Dec 9, 2008 ...The medical defense bar "would do everything possible I think to prevent this from becoming more common because it exposes their client to personal financial responsibility," Aronfeld said... Arkansas Mutual approved to offer medical liability insurance Arkansas Business, Little Rock, AR - Dec 8, 2008 ..."Prior to receiving our regulatory approval, Arkansas was one of the only states that did not have a state-based malpractice insurance company," ... Medical malpractice news
Opinion - Roger Bate: Abuse of medical system by lawyers hurts patients Atlanta Constitution-Journal, GA - Dec 8, 2008 ...Our tort system exists to ensure that wronged parties receive compensation and that fraudulent or negligent parties are punished. But abuse of the system by trial lawyers is driving safe drugs from the market and patients from mainstream medicine... Opinion - Philip Harnett Corboy Jr.: Illinois tort reform: Let's meet a malpractice victim Wall Street Journal, Dec 8, 2008 ...The insurance industry and its brethren in the tort reform world have argued that Abigaile's compensation for lifelong disability, pain and suffering should be arbitrarily limited, despite what a jury of average citizens may decide... Illinois high court hears challenge to state medical liability cap American Medical News, Chicago, IL - Dec 7, 2008 ...The fate of Illinois' cap on noneconomic damages in medical liability cases rests with the state Supreme Court after justices heard oral arguments Nov. 13 in a constitutional challenge to the 2005 law... Courts in 2 states rule on reach of HIPAA in medical liability cases American Medical News, Chicago, IL - Dec 7, 2008 ...As HIPAA continues to raise hurdles for defendants in medical liability cases, courts in Georgia and Michigan addressed the role of the statute... Malpractice screening under scrutiny in NH Portsmouth Herald, NH (Associated Press) - Dec 7, 2008 ...It's been three years since New Hampshire started screening medical malpractice cases before trial, but it's hard to say whether the new system is a success... Plan would license doctors in Nevada within 60 days Reno Gazette-Journal, NV (Associated Press) - Dec 6, 2008 ...The proposals include using other resources to get information about physicians' education and medical malpractice history... Physicians call for civil justice changes The Edmond Sun, OK (Associated Press) - Dec 6, 2008 ...A group of physicians, fearful that frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits may increase, called on Gov. Brad Henry Friday to convene a special session of the Legislature to consider changes to the state’s civil justice system... Medical malpractice news
Justices hear blood bank death suit Bradenton Herald, FL (Associated Press) - Dec 5, 2008 ...The justices have been asked to decide whether all blood banks are covered by Florida’s medical malpractice statutes, which include special procedures and limits on damages and attorney fees, rather than general negligence laws... Lawyers turn career into pet project as animal law grows Houston Chronicle, TX - Dec 5, 2008 ...As tort reform legislation stalled her work in medical malpractice and personal injury, Anderson said, she decided to focus more on legal issues surrounding the pets she loves... Medical malpractice news
State justices to hear lawsuit in blood-bank death of 7-year old Orlando Sentinel, FL (Associated Press) - Dec 4, 2008 ...The argument Thursday will focus on whether the malpractice procedures apply even though Chase Fitchner received only blood, not medical care... Opinion - Ferdinando Mirarchi, D.O.: Malpractice insurance relief urged Erie Times-News, PA - Dec 4, 2008 ...Pennsylvania's high medical liability insurance costs and unpredictable tort system have made the state a difficult place in which to practice medicine. Mcare abatement was not extended this year, a victim of a stalemate over health-insurance expansion... Health insurance lobby urges public-private reform panel Washington Times, DC - Dec 3, 2008 ...But AHIP says the national health care system contains plenty of opportunities to cut costs, including reforming outdated malpractice laws and tying doctor's pay more closely with performance... Medical malpractice news
Doctors' malpractice premiums likely to remain stable Hartford Courant, CT - Dec 3, 2008 ...The Connecticut Insurance Department says it has not received any company proposals for higher malpractice rates in 2009, and some physicians may even see some premium decreases as a result of credits for being claim-free... Medical malpractice news
Electronic records may cut malpractice suits The Harvard Crimson, Cambridge, MA - Dec 2, 2008 The use of electronic health records (EHRs) may help reduce the number of malpractice suits for physicians, according to a recent study by Harvard professors... Medical malpractice news
Opinion - Cleve L. Killingsworth: Changing the cost of healthcare The Boston Globe, MA - Dec 1, 2008 ...Increased utilization is being driven by an aging population, the practice of defensive medicine to avoid medical malpractice lawsuits, and the availability of costly new medications, procedures, and technologies... Health care plans languish at Pa. level Evening Sun, Hanover, PA - Nov 30, 2008 ...Rendell said his plan would not require general tax money, but instead would cover more working poor with a mix of sources that includes federal matching funds and surpluses from an account that subsidizes malpractice insurance with tobacco taxes. At a recent press conference on health issues, Rendell said he can't understand why some lawmakers are balking at expanding the adultBasic rolls... As hospital infections spread, so do medical-malpractice lawsuits The Daily Record, Baltimore, MD - Nov 30, 2008 A new type of med-mal lawsuit is on the rise — claims based on hospital infections. Several recent verdicts and settlements illustrate this trend... Rise in C-sections concerns some experts The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY - Nov 30, 2008 ...But he and several other doctors agreed that concerns about malpractice lawsuits do play at a part in delivery decisions, leading some doctors to quickly choose a C-section if a baby seems to be in trouble during a vaginal birth... Editorial: Messing with malpractice reform Wall Street Journal, NY - Nov 30, 2008 ...According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, limits on medical malpractice awards have now been adopted in all but 15 states. Texas has been flooded with applications for medical licenses since it adopted damage caps in 2003. The Illinois Supreme Court can once again do the bidding of the plaintiffs bar, or this time it can side with patients and the rule of law. Opinion - Frederic Jarrett, M.D.: Pennsylvania must face physicians' liability crisis Wall Street Journal, NY - Nov 30, 2008 ...Right now Gov. Rendell is perceived as part of the problem, rather than part of the solution. It is time for him and the state house to man up and address the two important issues of health insurance and physician liability premiums separately... Going high profile: Medical boards push transparency American Medical News, Chicago, IL - Nov 30, 2008 More than a decade ago, Massachusetts became the first state to mandate its medical board to post physician profiles online. With the click of a mouse, patients could find a physician's hospital affiliations, hospital and medical board disciplinary actions, medical malpractice payments and other data... |
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