Personal Injury Law

We cannot trust health care oversight until conflicts cease

By Steven M. Levin and John J. Perconti

A recent op-ed article scrutinized health care oversight. The article argued that there is no reason that any consumer seeking preventive care should risk death while seeking routine medical care at the hands of a profiteering physician. When culpability in a medical malpractice lawsuit becomes revealed, there is no reason that others with close ties to a bad doctor should remain in positions of oversight. The article concludes that a full-scale, top-to-bottom failure of government systems have allowed years of risky behavior to put others at risk of medical malpractice.

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Full post as published by Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog on March 22, 2008 (boomark / email).