Health Care & Hospital Law
Dec. 12, 2011
Using tort reform as an excuse: Why health care cannot be reformed
When it comes to improving patient safety, the health care industry is at a loss.
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
The health care industry, upon which we are all dependent, promotes the need for torn reform as an excuse for not being able to improve patient safety. As a result, the victims of medical negligence are subject to double discrimination, first by being victims, and second by being denied due process. This is a terrible price that the American public must face for an industry that cannot find a way to sufficiently improve safety.
For more than a decade, we have all known the ter...
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