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New York State Shines Light Toward the End of the Tunnel

JOHN M. FREEMAN, MD; ANDREW D. FREEMAN, JD

Am J Dis Child. 1992;146(6):725-727.

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Headlines proclaim, "Brain Damaged Child Awarded $10 Million"! "Obstetricians Flee Practice." "Pregnant Women Cannot Find Doctors." You have seen them too frequently. They are signs of the all-too-familiar malpractice insurance crisis. In light of some new proposed solutions, it is worth reviewing the causes of this crisis and approaches to a solution.

There are a variety of factors driving the obstetric malpractice crisis and each has several causes. One factor is our increasingly litigious society that seeks compensation for an injury whether or not that injury was another person's fault. The publicity surrounding the occasional huge multimillion-dollar verdicts and the increasing size of settlements and awards in malpractice cases in general have made the tort system a growth industry for lawyers and have made lawsuits an appealing solution for parents who see an otherwise bleak and expensive future for their impaired child. A second factor is pure misinformation. Because cerebral . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology The Pediatric Epilepsy Center The Johns Hopkins Hospital 600 N Wolfe St, CMSC 141 Baltimore, MD 21205; Brown, Goldstein, and Levy 520 W Fayette St Baltimore, MD 21201

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