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Medical malpractice is not limited to medical doctors. It applies ... to nurses, dentists, osteopaths, health care facilities and others providing health care services, such as nursing homes. If you believe that you have been the victim of malpractice by any health care provider, do not delay in contacting an experienced medical malpractice attorney.
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Speaking at South Austin Hospital, Gov. Rick Perry calls upon legislators to enact medical malpractice reforms. Joining the governor are Sen. Jane Nelson and (from right) doctors Steve Berkowitz, Donald Ward and Albert Gros. Rep. Jaime Capelo and Rep. Joe Nixon were ... in attendance. Photo
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The wife of a man who died during a hair transplant operation has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against a Southern California cosmetic surgery office. The suit, which seeks unspecified damages, was filed Monday in Superior Court, said attorney Ron Wilson who represents Yvonne Robison-Riley and her three adult children. It names Crown Cosmetic Surgery of Los Angeles and several doctors as defendants.
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Market Conditions: After years of insufficient rate increases that have eroded their financial health, New York’s medical malpractice insurers received an average increase in medical malpractice insurance rates of 14 percent. In addition, the assigned risk plan, the state’s pool for doctors who can’t find coverage in the regular market, is running a deficit, in part because in the past the legislature appropriated $691 million of its reserve fund for general state expenses. In addition to their own costs, insurers in New York State must pay off the pool’s $525 million deficit in proportion to their business in the state.
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Most medical malpractice actions are filed against doctors who have failed to use reasonable care to treat you. The profession itself sets the standard for malpractice by its own custom and practice. Historically under the so-called "locality rule," a doctor was required only to possess and apply the knowledge and use the skill and care that is ordinarily used by reasonably well-qualified physicians in the locality, or similar localities, in which he or she practiced. But today the trend is toward abolishing such a rule in favor of a national standard of practice.
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David Dobbs presents the Swedish fix to medical malpractice. Michael Kinsley attacks the American Medical Association's approach to tort reform. Atul Gawande argues that when medical errors happen, doctors are to blame, not "the system."
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