Overall, these reform strategies are responsive to physician dissatisfaction, the report says, but their efficacy as a cure for the tort crisis and protection for recurring crises is open to question. The core objective of such reforms should not be to restore physicians’ job satisfaction, but to improve the malpractice system’s performance in compensating patients and promoting high-quality care. If a byproduct of reform is higher professional satisfaction, it’s the patients who stand the most to gain, the report says.
Project on Medical Liability in Pennsylvania may be found at www.medliabilitypa.orgAbout The Project on Medical Liability in Pennsylvania:The goal of the two-year, $3.2 million Project on Medical Liability in Pennsylvania is to provide Pennsylvania policy makers with objective information about the medical liability system; to broaden participation in the medical liability debate to include new constituencies and perspectives; and to focus attention on the relationship between medical liability and the overall health and prosperity of the Commonwealth.
Project is working with leading health policy experts from across the nation and will continue to publish both original research based on new data and expert analyses. The Project will generate information from a broad range of perspectives, without promoting the agenda of any of the stakeholders in the debate. The other articles in this special edition of “Health Affairs” examine the following: William Sage, from Columbia Law School, proposes overhauling the structure and financing of malpractice liability insurance.
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