Indian Doctors Arrested After Hepatitis Outbreak
In one of my February 25th postings, “Error-Prone Doctors, Count Your Blessings,” I brought up the relationship between medical malpractice and criminal prosecution that exists in The Netherlands, where a bill before parliament may result in prison sentences for up to 9 years for physicians who commit “serious” malpractice.
Perhaps you thought, “Interesting, but we’ll never hear [...]
Ex Practitioner Data Bank Exec No Fan of “Tort Reform”
Robert Oshel, a former associate director of the Division of the Practitioner Data Banks at the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, spoke out recently in the Baltimore Sun. (H/T to Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog.) In response to the concerns of physicians worried about increasing malpractice insurance rates, Mr. Oshel wrote, “The solution to high [...]
News to End the Week
Setting the Record on the “Malpractice Crisis” Straight in Maryland. Today’s Baltimore Sun contains an eye-opening opinion piece that calls for victims of medical malpractice to be treated fairly.
According to the AP News, some doctors are returning to the tradition of making house calls, but are now carrying more than their small black “doctor’s bag.”
British physicians warn [...]