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The Medical Malpractice Myth
American health care is in crisis because of exploding medical malpractice litigation. Insurance premiums for doctors and malpractice lawsuits are skyrocketing, rendering doctors both afraid and unable to afford to continue to practice medicine. Undeserving victims sue at the drop of a hat, egged on by greedy lawyers, and receive eye-popping awards that insurance companies, hospitals, and doctors themselves struggle to pay. The plaintiffs and lawyers always win; doctors, and the nonlitigious, always lose; and affordable health care is the real victim. This, according to Tom Baker, is the myth... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0226036499
- ASIN: 0226036499
- ISBN: 9780226036496
- Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press
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Medical Malpractice (MIT Press)
A comprehensive analysis of medical malpractice from legal, medical, economic, and insurance perspectives that considers why past efforts at reform have not worked and offers recommendations for realistic, achievable policy changes.Most experts would agree that the current medical malpractice system in the United States does not work effectively either to compensate victims fairly or prevent injuries caused by medical errors. Policy responses to a series of medical malpractice crises have not resulted in effective reform and have not altered the fundamental incentives of the stakeholders. In M... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0262195720
- ASIN: 0262195720
- ISBN: 0262195720
- Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Principles of Risk Management and Patient Safety
Principles of Risk Management and Patient Safety identifies changes in the industry and describes how these changes have influenced the functions of risk management in all aspects of healthcare.The book is divided into four sections. The first section describes the current state of the healthcare industry and looks at the importance of risk management and the emergence of patient safety. It also explores the importance of working with other sectors of the health care industry such as the pharmaceutical and device manufacturers.The last three sections focus on the three main components of the r... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0763774057
- ASIN: 0763774057
- ISBN: 0763774057
- Brand: Brand: Jones Bartlett Learning
- Manufacturer: Jones & Bartlett Learning
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Medical Malpractice Claims Investigation: A Step-By-Step Approach
Primer for medical malpractice claims investigation. Can be used as a self-study guide by claims investigators, health care risk managers, and paralegals. Softcover.
- ASIN: 0834208601
- ASIN: 0834208601
- ISBN: 0834208601
- Brand: Brand: Aspen Pub
- Manufacturer: Aspen Pub
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Medical Malpractice: A Physician's Sourcebook
Books such as this one are deceptively difficult to create. The general subject is neither happy, nor easy, nor most anyone’s idea of fun. M- practice litigation, however, has become a central fact of existence in the practice of medicine today. This tsunami of lawsuits has led to a high volume of irreconcilable rhetoric and ultimately threatens the stability of the entire health care system. Our goal has been to provide a source of reliable information on a subject of importance to all who provide me- cal care in the United States. The book is divided into four sections. Part I gives an ove... [Read More]
- ASIN: 1588293890
- ASIN: 1588293890
- ISBN: 1588293890
- Brand: Brand: Humana Press
- Manufacturer: Humana
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Mistreated: Why We Think We're Getting Good Health Care-and Why We're Usually Wrong
A WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERThe biggest problem in American health care is usDo you know how to tell good health care from bad health care? Guess again. As patients, we wrongly assume the "best" care is dependent mainly on the newest medications, the most complex treatments, and the smartest doctors. But Americans look for health-care solutions in the wrong places. For example, hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved each year if doctors reduced common errors and maximized preventive medicine.For Dr. Robert Pearl, these kinds of mistakes are a matter of professional importance, but also ... [Read More]
- ASIN: 1610397657
- ASIN: 1610397657
- ISBN: 9781610397650
- Brand: PUBLICAFFAIRS
- Manufacturer: PublicAffairs
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Defendant: a Psychiatrist on Trial for Medical Malpractice
A hair raising, a real life courtroom drama. A medical malpractice suit so painful that at times it is difficult to turn the pages, yet so absorbing it is impossible to put down.
- ASIN: 0029059100
- ASIN: 0029059100
- ISBN: 0029059100
- Manufacturer: Free Press
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Medical Malpractice and the U.S. Health Care System
Medical malpractice lawsuits are common and controversial in the United States. Since early 2002, doctors' insurance premiums for malpractice coverage have soared. As Congress and state governments debate laws intended to stabilize the cost of insurance, doctors continue to blame lawyers and lawyers continue to blame doctors and insurance companies. This book, which is the capstone of three years' comprehensive research funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, goes well beyond the conventional debate over tort reform and connects medical liability to broader trends and goals in American health pol... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0521614112
- ASIN: 0521614112
- ISBN: 0521614112
- Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
- Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Insurance and Risk Management Strategies for Physicians and Advisors
As a consequence of today's litigious environment in the healthcare industry, physicians must now carefully assess their personal and practice risks as they seek to be indemnified should an event or cause of action occur. This process requires integrated knowledge of the healthcare industrial complex, as well as the rapidly changing insurance industry. Fortunately, Insurance and Risk Management Strategies for Physicians and Advisors confronts the reality that insurance planning in healthcare is decidedly more complex than most other businesses or professions and, in an easy-to-understand manne... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0763733423
- ASIN: 0763733423
- ISBN: 0763733423
- Brand: Brand: Jones n Bartlett Learning
- Manufacturer: Jones & Bartlett Learning
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A Measure of Malpractice: Medical Injury, Malpractice Litigation, and Patient Compensation
A Measure of Malpractice tells the story and presents the results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study, the largest and most comprehensive investigation ever undertaken of the performance of the medical malpractice system. The Harvard study was commissioned by the government of New York in 1986, in the midst of a malpractice crisis that had driven insurance premiums for surgeons and obstetricians in New York City to nearly $200,000 a year.The Harvard-based team of doctors, lawyers, economists, and statisticians set out to investigate what was actually happening to patients in hospitals and to... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0674558804
- ASIN: 0674558804
- ISBN: 0674558804
- Brand: Brand: Harvard University Press
- Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Prudent Practice: A Guide for Managing Malpractice Risk
Today, practice is more specialized, and licensing regulations, professional standards, and statutes are more complex. The best defense remains competent, ethically conscientious practice—and now NASW Press offers practitioners a complete practice guide to increasing competence and managing the risk of malpractice. Special Features * 25 sample forms in the book and on CD-ROM * 5 sample fact sheets to distribute to clients * Summary considerations at the end of chapters * Special focus on particularly high-risk areas of practice * Numerous case examples and checklists. Funded by the NASW Insu... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0871012677
- ASIN: 0871012677
- ISBN: 0871012677
- Manufacturer: Natl Assn of Social Workers Pr
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Insuring Medical Malpractice
The cost of malpractice insurance to physicians has been increasing in recent years, as has the threat to physicians of being sued. This book describes and analyzes the workings of the market for physicians' liability insurance. The authors use their own data and other sources to study questions such as: Is the market for medical malpractice insurance competitive? Has the profitability of medical malpractice insurance been excessive? Why do malpractice insurers demand reinsurance? What effect has insurance regulation had on premiums? And it explores what experience rating is and how it is done... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0195069595
- ASIN: 0195069595
- ISBN: 0195069595
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It
A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system.In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a hospital, one of more than two hundred thousand avoidable deaths per year caused by medical error. The bill was enormous—and Medicare paid it. These circumstances left Goldhill angry and determined to understand how world-class technology and personnel could coexist with s... [Read More]
- ASIN: B00957T4QK
- ASIN: B00957T4QK
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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Risk Management for Health/Fitness Professionals: Legal Issues and Strategies
Laws and legal issues in the health and fitness arena become clear with this well-organized text. You will learn invaluable risk management strategies to promote safer programs and environments. You will discover and expand your knowledge of many legal concerns related to emergency procedures, employment, equipment, and facility issues, pre-activity health screening, fitness testing and prescription, and instruction and supervision. Real-life health/fitness case law examples provide practical and useful illustrations of negligence to help you understand and minimize your legal liability.Featur... [Read More]
- ASIN: 078178364X
- ASIN: 078178364X
- ISBN: 078178364X
- Brand: Brand: Lippincott Williams Wilkins
- Manufacturer: LWW
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Let the games begin: the severity of injuries in professional sports can lead to complex and expensive litigation.(Property/Casualty: Medical ... Insurance): An article from: Best's Review
This digital document is an article from Best's Review, published by A.M. Best Company, Inc. on November 1, 2011. The length of the article is 2087 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation DetailsTitle: Let the games begin: the severity of injuries in professional sports can lead to complex and expensive litigation.(Property/Casualty: Medical Professional Liability Insurance)Author: Bob AllenPublication: Best's Review (Magazine/Journa... [Read More]
- ASIN: B0068XU85U
- ASIN: B0068XU85U
- Manufacturer: A.M. Best Company, Inc.
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The Empowered Patient : How to Get the Right Diagnosis, Buy the Cheapest Drugs, Beat Your Insurance Company, and Get the Best Medical Care Every Time
In this timely work, CNN correspondent Cohen explains to readers how to take their health in their own hands and get the right medical diagnosis, buy the cheapest drugs, beat their insurance company, and get
- UPC: 13315371
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Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform: Issues of Insurance Costs, Coverage, Caps, and Compensation : a Report to the 54th Legislature From the Joint Int
Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform: Issues of Insurance Costs, Coverage, Caps, and Compensation : a Report to the 54th Legislature From the Joint
- UPC: 390854971
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Insuring Medical Malpractice
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- UPC: 417145666
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