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Actually, eSmith, I couldn't agree with you more! Dang! You're starting to sound like a Republican!

I don't smoke, but if I did, I'd never consider trying to sue someone because I had lung cancer! Again, another example of our litigious society.

It's interesting how the lawyers seek out these 'victims' and not the other way around. I've been asked to participate (free of charge) in class action lawsuits, and I always write the a letter politely telling them to shove it.

And not all lawyers are low life scum suckers. I know quite a few who are sincere and honestly tell someone when they are way off base and will reject cases that they think are 'dubious' even if they are winable. But now I'm getting way off track.
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http://server.iii.org/yy_obj_data/b..._1_0/medmal.pdf

more malpractice info. Check out page 9.


One on tort reform.

www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=4968&sequence=0

Liability concern leads to defensive medicine (prescribing tests even though the doc is pretty sure there is no need), which of course amplifies the problem.
lost the link, but found an interesting abstract on a study on done on this.


" Daniel P. Kessler
Mark McClellan
Abstract

`Defensive medicine' is a potentially serious social problem: if fear of liability drives health care providers to administer treatments that do not have worthwhile medical benefits, then the current liability system may generate inefficiencies many times greater than the costs of compensating malpractice claimants."
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