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The medical malpractice cap has long been an argument between medical providers who have come to believe the only option might be to walk out on their high insurance premiums and their careers and attorneys who believe their clients should never have to take the fall for faulty medical practices. Both sides have valid arguments, but are there only two possible solutions? Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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on their high insurance premiums and their careers and attorneys who believe their clients should never have to take the fall for faulty medical practices. Both sides have valid arguments,
but are there only two possible solutions? Take for example, the Armitage family whose son collided with another soccer player on the field
and ended up a quadriplegic at the age of 7. The problem arose when the family was shuttled between three ER/intensive care units at three different hospitals, delaying service. (Armitage,
2004, 14). Was this parent right in complaining about the hospitals not diagnosing the problem in time? Or is she at least correct in informing readers that lumping all tort
lawsuits into one group and blaming them all on the medical profession is incorrect, especially when, as she states, "payouts for medical malpractice account for less than 1 percent of
total health-care costs, and only 3 to 5 percent of doctors account for the majority of malpractice cases." (Armitage, 2004, 14). Mrs.
Armitage further states that the health care industry is incapable of auditing its practices and that this is the real reason behind the high cost of medical malpractice insurance. She
states that "nearly 100,000 people [are] dying yearly because of preventable errors," and suggests that if the medical world would police itself and remove the "3 to 5 percent of
doctors from practicing medicine in these types of life-or-death situations," then capping medical malpractice awards would not be a problem (Armitage, 2004, 14).
However, the battle rages on two sides without considering this option. For many, the reason is that this has become highly politicized.
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