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There Is Another Approach to Medical Malpractice Disputes

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J. Sybil Biermann, MD

Patricia Legant's article, "Oncologists and Medical Malpractice" details the main issues facing us as oncology clinicians in our current environment—especially delay in diagnosis, chemotherapy dosing, pain control, and informed consent—and how these perceived or alleged actions lead to malpractice claims and litigation. Here, we contrast the prevailing approach with an approach that we have developed.

Traditional responses by medical practioners, medical liability insurers, and malpractice attorneys to malpractice claims is to temporize, to refuse to admit blame, and to reduce defense costs by settling. Few would argue that the traditional "deny and defend" approach has been . . . [Click for More]

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