Medicine: one of the causes of malpractice lawsuits is — surprise! — malpractice.
Kevin Drum blogs about a new study out of UC-SD that links medication errors to the busiest times of the month.
Thursday, January 6, 2005
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Proponents of tort reform often focus on superfluous malpractice suits and forget that malpractice really does occur. Defending actual malpractice rather than excessive lawsuits is a much more difficult sell. The UC-SD study points to a situation in which human error enters into the health care system.
The AMA supports tort reform to some degree because 90% of their membership would leave if they didn't. and more than a handful of legitimate academic studies suggest that caps will do very little to lower malpractice premiums, while significantly damaging a plaintiff's ability to file suit in proportion to the magnitude of a grievance. And while I'd be more than willing to support caps if there was hard evidence that could lead to a cheaper, more accessible health care system, that evidence doesn't seem to unequivocally exist.
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