The Washington Post, May 23rd, 2006
The Claim For years the medical establishment has railed about an epidemic of baseless malpractice cases said to be driving up costs for patients and forcing them to find new physicians because doctors were retiring in droves. These frivolous lawsuits, medical leaders claimed, were not the result of medical errors -- which the Institute of Medicine has estimated kill as many as 98,000 Americans annually -- or substandard care, but mostly stemmed from unavoidable complications. The issue became a major topic in the 2004 presidential campaign, and the Bush administration has made tort reform -- ...
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