CONTENTS:
- Perspective: The high cost of medical care
- Neurologist is not an expert on nursing care
- Don’t assume you will get to depose the doctor writing the “certificate of merit”
Perspective: The high cost of medical care
Two recent articles contend that, compared to other nations, the United States gets too little value for the money spent on health care. Dr. John Wennberg and colleagues of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and Drs. Ezekiel Emanuel and Victor Fuchs (JAMA, June 18) provide documentation of the extent of the problem with US health care. The latter authors’ article is titled “The Perfect Storm of Overutilization.” There is no measure in which the US excels, e.g., infant mortality, cancer deaths, heart disease, or life expectancy. We simply do worse.
For anyone interested in why medical care costs so much, and why we seem to do so poorly in comparison with the rest of the world, << CLICK HERE >> for a summary of the articles and links to the orginal data.
Don’t assume you will get to depose the doctor writing the “certificate of merit”
Another state, Illinois, also requires that a “certificate of merit” be presented in order to file a malpractice lawsuit. However, a judge there recently ruled that there is no requirement that the person providing the certificate be made available for deposition. In the case at hand, the plaintiff attorney dropped the physician as an expert once the certificate was received. For more, << CLICK HERE >>