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Malpractice Crisis

PROLOGUE

The Medical Malpractice Crisis

PROLOGUE: The deepest division in the ongoing medical malpractice crisis is not between pro-plaintiff and pro-defendant constituencies, but between political stakeholders and the academic community. Policymakers view the malpractice reform debate as a contest over the desirability of limiting lawsuits and capping damages. Academics agree that the medical malpractice system is seriously flawed but are united in the belief that "tort reforms" such as California’s 1975 MICRA law offer, at best, incomplete solutions to only a subset of critical problems involving liability that threaten both the affordability and the quality of health care. In this special section of Health Affairs, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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