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West Virginia Hopes Tort Reform Will Draw Entice Doctors.

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By Scott Finn, The Charleston Gazette, W.Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 5--Bob Gray still remembers the magazine cover -- a doctor getting into his car with a West Virginia license plate reading "GOODBYE."

That cover of Medical Economics magazine symbolizes the view out-of-state doctors had of West Virginia as "tort hell," said Gray, vice president of Thomas Memorial Hospital in South Charleston.

But that image already may be changing, he said, even though the Legislature still hasn't passed a medical malpractice bill.

"Both said that we've completely turned around the image of malpractice in West Virginia," he ...

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