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Medical malpractice and the U.S. health care system, edited by William M. Sage, Rogan Kersh

eng

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non fiction

Medical malpractice and the U.S. health care system

electronic resource

dictionaries

252527263

edited by William M. Sage, Rogan Kersh

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

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 policy. Contributions from leading figures in health law and policy marshal the best available information, present new empirical evidence, and offer cutting-edge analysis of potential reforms involving patient safety, liability insurance and tort litigation.--, Provided by publisher

The medical malpractice system : structure and performance / Michelle M. Mello and David M. Studdert -- Malpractice reform as a health policy problem / William M. Sage -- Medical malpractice and the new politics of health care / Rogan Kersh -- Who pays when malpractice premiums rise? / Mark V. Pauly -- The effects of the U.S. malpractice system on the cost and quality of care / David J. Becker and Daniel P. Kessler -- Liability, patient safety, and defensive medicine : what does the future hold? / Troyen A. Brennan, Michelle M. Mello, and David M. Studdert -- Medical liability and the culture of technology / Peter D. Jacobson -- Promoting fairness in the medical malpractice system / Maxwell J. Mehlman --Caps and the construction of damages in medical malpractice cases / Catherine M. Sharkey -- Expertise and the legal process / Catherine T. Struve -- Disclosure and fair resolution of adverse events / Carol B. Liebman and Chris Stern Hyman -- Enterprise liability in the twenty-first century / Randall R. Bovbjerg and Robert Berenson -- Private contractual alternatives to malpractice liability / Jennifer Arlen -- Medical malpractice insurance reform : "enterprise insurance" and some alternatives / Tom Baker -- Governments as insurers in professional and hospital liability insurance markets / Frank A. Sloan and Charles E. Eesley -- Medicare-led malpractice reform / William M. Sage and Eleanor D. Kinney

Medical Malpractice & the U.S. Health Care System