Health Care System and Lawyers

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This paper considers the idea in the question "To what extent has the lawyer's role in bringing justice to patients injured by medical negligence actually been a cause of the crisis in our health care delivery system?". The paper finds that the problem with health care is not litigation but aspects of the system itself, as reflected in an article by Gibbs and Bower.

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"America is facing a health care crisis on several levels, with one aspect being rising costs as well as a climate of fear that prevents medical personnel from doing all that they can to make the system more responsive. One aspect of this is the system of litigation doctors often face when they make a mistake, raising the following question: "To what extent has the lawyer's role in bringing justice to patients injured by medical negligence actually been a cause of the crisis in our health care delivery system?" The issue is raised by those who see high insurance costs for malpractice insurance and who cite large jury awards to plaintiffs who sue doctors or hospitals when a treatment fails."

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