Health Care & Hospital Law
Jun. 9, 2012
Medical malpractice settlements: who benefits?
Protecting the public health is a critically important function of government.
Bruce G. Fagel
Law Offices of Bruce G. Fagel & AssociatesPhone: (310) 516-9035
Email: brucefagel@fagellaw.com
Whittier College School of Law
Bruce G. Fagel is licensed to practice medicine and is founder of the Law Offices of Bruce G. Fagel & Associates. He served as a consultant on medical malpractice law to the California Judicial Counsel Committee, which wrote the new CACI jury instructions. He can be reached at brucefagel@fagellaw.com
Protecting the public health is a critically important function of government. Communicable diseases or new drugs that can impact large numbers of people are the focus of organizations with centralized authority and broad investigatory powers, like the CDC or FDA. However, when it comes to protecting the health of individual patients, there is no central authority. The protection of patients in hospitals is left to a voluntary organization, the Joint Commission, which accredits hospitals...
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