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Patients asked to sign contracts: company offers plans to curb frivolous lawsuits.(Practice Trends)
Physicians across the country are taking a new aggressive stance to protect themselves against malpractice lawsuits: They're asking their patients to sign on the dotted line, specifying that they won't sue for any "frivolous" reason.
If it is a meritorious case, the patient "has to use a board-certified expert witness who follows the code of ethics for that particular professional society," said Dr. Jeff Segal, a nonpracticing neurosurgeon and founder of Medical Justice Corp., a company based in Greensboro, S.C., that provides these types of contracts as well as services designed to keep physicians from getting sued for so-called frivolous reasons.
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