While both the Patients’ Bill of Rights legislation, allowing patients to sue HMOs in state court for unlimited damages, and tort reform, providing physicians judicial relief in medical liability, have stalled in the 107th Congress this year — these intertwined problems of health care litigation will not disappear for long from the political landscape. You […]
Medical Liability Tort Reform — A Neurosurgeon’s Perspective Read More »
With the definite resurgence of the medical liability crisis, a recapitulation of the AMA’s campaign for the implementation of tort reform in the last several years is in order to better understand where we have been and where we are headed in our struggle for meaningful and substantive medical liability (“malpractice”) tort reform. In fact,
The AMA, Medical Liability Tort Reform, and HMO Lawsuits Read More »
The role of gun violence and street crime in the United States and the world is currently a subject of great debate among national and international organizations, including the United Nations. Because the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the individual right of American citizens to own private firearms, availability of firearms is greater
I have related previously (Medical Sentinel, Spring and Summer 1997) how the 1991 American Medical Associations (AMA) campaign against domestic violence launched for public relation consumption went hand in hand with the public health establishments 1979 stated objective of eradication of handguns in America, beginning with a 25 percent reduction by the year 2000.(1-2) Toward
Public Health and Gun Control — A Review (Part I: The Benefits of Firearms) Read More »
Just when you thought talking to your doctor or psychiatrist was one of the most private and confidential things you could do … think again.(1) In what it describes as an effort to curb handgun violence, a group called Doctors Against Handgun Injury is calling for sweeping changes in doctor-patient confidentiality that would allow doctors,
Doctors to Spy on Patients’ Gun Ownership by Miguel A. Faria, MD Read More »
Every doctor knows that a gagging patient is a sick patient. But apparently the American Medical Association believes gagging medical research is just dandy when it serves the AMA agenda at the expense of public health. The Journal of the American Medical Association recently “gagged” authors of articles submitted to JAMA from speaking to the
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