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By Tom Baker
Tom Baker has displayed very sloppy examine for this e-book. he is taking libelous, sensationalized information articles written by means of journalists who by no means interviewed these excited about situations and makes use of them because the foundation of truth in his ebook. i'm always surprised that during this present day of just about quick conversation, newshounds and authors can't visit the resource yet depend upon second-hand, and sometimes poorly researched, info.
I cannot end a e-book with blatant libelous statements - what number different fake statements are made? His use of peer-reviewed journals and reviews as assets doesn't negate his use of biased surprise journalism. after all Mr. Baker is easily acutely aware that the sufferers of libel have even fewer rights than the sufferers of clinical malpractice.
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Mistakes were made on almost half of the patients. The mistakes seriously injured nearly 20 percent of the patients, causing anything from temporary disability to death. The sicker the patient or the longer she was in the hospital, the more likely there was a mistake. And mistakes caused patients to stay in the hospital longer, increasing the chance that there would be another mistake. For our purposes, the key finding is that 20 percent of the patients suffered a serious injury from an adverse event.
What psychologists call the “self-serving bias” helps explain how doctors process information about medical mistakes and medical malpractice lawsuits. As psychologists explain, “People attempt to construct a rational justification for conclusions that they want to draw. ”34 : This bias is nearly universal and does not reflect any kind of character flaw on the part of doctors. But it does means that stories about unfair lawsuits literally count more than the occasional references to research on medical mistakes, despite the fact that the research is a far better guide to medical malpractice and medical malpractice lawsuits.
Instead, the real problem is the disruptive effect of rapid price increases, and the related unfairness of asking a few, hospital-based specialty groups, such as obstetricians, to bear the brunt of those increases. These are insurance problems, not tort problems, and they need insurance solutions. An insurance reform that I call “enterprise insurance” could protect doctors from the worst effects of the insurance cycle in the future. The full description of enterprise insurance appears in chapter 8.