Healthwise Today » Medical Malpractice http://healthwisetoday.com Be Wise About Factors Affecting Your Health & Wellness Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:03:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Health Courts May Do It Better http://healthwisetoday.com/2010/01/health-courts-may-do-it-better/ http://healthwisetoday.com/2010/01/health-courts-may-do-it-better/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:29:56 +0000 bjmdjd http://healthwisetoday.com/?p=49 The January issue of Physicians Practice magazine has a great article about health courts. These specialized courts have long been suggested by some as possibly helping medical malpractice cases be resolved in a more equitable manner.

Several points include:

  • Experienced Judges – judges might be able to better make determinations based on facts as opposed to juries who many times are affected by emotion
  • Neutral Expert Witnesses  – no more “hired guns” who are often times paid for their “opinions”
  • Scheduled Awards – many injured patients receive little or no compensation while a few small number of cases end with huge amounts of money being awarded

In order to read the entire interesting article click on the following link:

http://www.physicianspractice.com/index/fuseaction/articles.details/articleID/1431.htm

bjmdjd

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