| Description |
xii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Caps and the construction of damages in medical malpractice cases / Catherine M. Sharkey -- Expertise and the legal process / Catherine T. Struve -- Disclosure and fair resolution of adverse events / Carol B. Liebman and Chris Stern Hyman -- Enterprise liability in the twenty-first century / Randall R. Bovbjerg and Robert Berenson -- Private contractual alternatives to malpractice liability / Jennifer Arlen -- Medical malpractice insurance reform : "enterprise insurance" and some alternatives / Tom Baker -- Governments as insurers in professional and hospital liability insurance markets / Frank A. Sloan and Charles E. Eesley -- Medicare-led malpractice reform / Eleanor Kinney and William Sage |
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The medical malpractice system : structure and performance / Michelle M. Mello and David M. Studdert -- Malpractice reform as a health policy problem / William M. Sage -- Medical malpractice and the new politics of health care / Rogan Kersh -- Who pays when malpractice premiums rise? / Mark V. Pauly -- The effects of the US malpractice system on the cost and quality of care / David J. Becker and Daniel P. Kessler -- Liability, patient safety, and defensive medicine : what does the future hold? / Troyen A. Brennan, Michelle M. Mello, and David M. Studdert -- Medical liability and the culture of technology / Peter D. Jacobson -- Promoting fairness in the medical malpractice system / Maxwell J. Mehlman -- |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-388) and index |
| Subject |
Physicians' malpractice insurance -- United States.
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Medical care -- United States.
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Physicians -- Malpractice -- United States.
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| Author |
Kersh, Rogan.
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Sage, William M.
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| LC no. |
2005037931 |
| ISBN |
0521614112 |
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0521849322 |
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9780521614115 |
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9780521849326 |
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