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Originally posted by Spanky
No - I should know better, but I was repeating hearsay. I sit on the Republican Central Committee for Santa Clara County (Silicon Valley) and the chairman is a doctor. He was once the president of the AMA. Anyway, most of the leadership of the Republican party here in the Bay Area is pissed off doctors. He is constantly telling me medical malpractice nightmares. If you want me to get you sources from him I can. If it is really important.
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Hint: if they've jacked his premiums up to $350,000 while others pay $45,000, you don't want to have him delivering your kid.
Get a Democratic Doctor instead.
On a serious note, the overwhelming amount of malpractice is committed by a relatively small portion of the physician population. The less than 5% of physicians who have had multiple malpractice cases brought against them are responsible for over half the damages paid.
See here. Right now, about the only way to push the worst offenders out of medicine is to hike up their malpractice premiums, an admittedly very indirect and inefficient way of doing it. Any malpractice reform needs to have some mechanism for dealing with problem physicians.
