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Article: Groups blame malpractice crisis on medical errors. (Consumer Advocacy Organizations).
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- OB GYN News
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- February 15, 2003
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WASHINGTON -- If physicians really want to lower their malpractice premiums, they should weed out bad doctors who are responsible for medical errors, representatives of a coalition of consumer advocacy organizations said at a press briefing.
The groups--which also include Public Citizen and the Consumer Federation of America--are challenging organized medicine's long-time claim that increased litigation and super-sized legal judgments are to blame for skyrocketing malpractice insurance costs.
The American Medical Association "is investing its resources in a firestorm" to prove that the insurance crisis is hurting patients, said Arthur Levin, a member of ...