December 30, 2009

Lawyers vs. Doctors


People die from doctors not washing their hands between patients; from not washing testing machines between patients; from doctors not listening to their patients. Is the issue better training or weeding out ego driven doctors?

"the trial lawyers’ political action committee gave members of the Democratic congressional majority more money than all but two other PACs."
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"contributed $1.1 million this year to Democrats, trailing only the International Union of Operating Engineers and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington research group."
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"Based on studies of hospitals in two states, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences estimated in 1999 that from 44,000 to 98,000 people each year die of medical errors."

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell&pid=20601087&sid=a0J5cpDsm3pg&pos=9

Trial Lawyers Sidestep Malpractice Curbs With Blitz in Congress
By Jonathan D. Salant
Bloomberg.com
December 30, 2009

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