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Saving the ship.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
Both Richard E. Anderson, M.D., and Joanne Doroshow made convincing, logical arguments regarding the malpractice crisis, but I suggest that they were merely shifting the deck chairs on the Titanic.
The United States is the only developed nation with a so-called malpractice crisis. Other nations have abandoned the practice of contingency fees by attorneys, thus eliminating a rash of suits that eventually prove to be frivolous.
We remain the only nation without a universal, government-sponsored health care plan. Therefore, we have millions of people without any--or with woefully inadequate--care. U.S. medicine has been put into the pot we call "corporate America," which places its profits before the welfare of the people. Physicians may call them patients, but to corporate America they are customers.
Caps schmaps. As long as this system remains intact, there can be no end to the crisis. And why should there be?
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