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Article: Doctors' mistakes cause insurance 'crisis'.(Columns)(Malpractice: Physicians should be working to eliminate unnecessary errors instead of blaming "suit happy" victims.)(Column)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- December 15, 2002
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Byline: JERRY SAGEN For The Register-Guard
MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE killed my wife, Mary Sagen, in 1996. She was 45 years old. Her young daughter, her mother, her brothers and I all miss her terribly.
An article in the Nov. 23 Commentary section by Dr. Glenn Keiper, a Eugene neurosurgeon, rails against the legal profession, the courts and "suit happy" victims for supposedly increasing the cost of medical malpractice insurance in Oregon. Keiper's column was glaring in its omissions, and it failed to address the real issue: Needless mistakes kill and injure a shockingly large number of patients.
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