Why your doctor might quit; when you next need your doctor, will fears of lawsuits and intolerable malpractice insurance fees have driven him or her out of business?
Saturday Evening Post › Vol. 276 Nbr. 6, November 2004
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Why your doctor might quit; when you next need your doctor, will fears of lawsuits and intolerable malpractice insurance fees have driven him or her out of business?
There is a crisis putting American lives at risk. What is a crisis? It occurs when a pregnant woman is in labor and distress--and no obstetrician is available. Or when a nine-year-old boy has a head injury but there's no neurosurgeon remaining in his area. Or when a town's only trauma center shuts down for want of physicians.
In South Texas, a pregnant woman showed up in a physician's office Just 10 minutes from delivery. She was trying to drive 80 miles to her doctor in San Antonio because her original physician had stopped delivering babies. In Arizona, a nurse from a hospital that had closed its maternity ward gave birth by the side of the road before she could reach the region's only remaining maternity ward 40 miles away. The only Level I trauma center in Las Vegas had to shut down for 10 days because the surgeons who worked there couldn't afford their liability premiums. For those 10 da...See the full content of this document
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