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Article: Human Torment Underlies New Jersey Crisis in Insuring Doctors.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- February 4, 2003
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By Lindy Washburn, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 4--This is one face of medical malpractice: an eye that cannot close, a mouth that does not smile, a cheek patched with skin grafts, and nerves numbed by narcotic painkillers. It is Sandy Egbert's face, five years after a mistreated rash left her forever disfigured.
And this is another: a doctor whose eyes have seen new life enter the world, whose ears have heard the first cries of nearly 5,000 newborns, and whose lips have offered comfort to laboring mothers for 35 years. It is Stanley Wiener's face, five years after delivering a fatally defective baby, whose ...