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To Brickel, is there any element of the current medical malpractice system that needs to be reformed in your view? Are you able to separate your own professional interest from the public interest? ...
CBO Report On Tort Reform And Health Care Flawed
Michael Kirsch, M.D. | December 05, 2009 5:10 PMHonolulu, HI
I assume the CBO got the $846 billion price tag correct, right? or is that flawed too?
CBO Report On Tort Reform And Health Care Flawed
Brickel | December 05, 2009 4:25 PMHonolulu, HI
Wayne, I don't think you need specific anecdotes from my own practice for examples of defensive medicine. Talk to any physician you work with, or your own personal physician. This issue is explodin...
CBO Report On Tort Reform And Health Care Flawed
Michael Kirsch, M.D. | October 15, 2009 9:17 PMHonolulu, HI
It always amazes me that the majority of the public seems to miss a point I would think is obvious. If doctors and hospitals do not have to be responsible for their own negligence and insurance compa...
CBO Report On Tort Reform And Health Care Flawed
John Hopkins | October 14, 2009 4:54 PMHonolulu, HI
Dear Ms. Petty: I'm sorry if I was misunderstood. I am 100% against putting a cap on civil suits and negligence or malpractice. I believe the civil justice system works. What my feeling is is tha...
CBO Report On Tort Reform And Health Care Flawed
R. Lower | October 14, 2009 10:42 AMHonolulu, HI
Today's medical professional liability system is too adversarial and too expensive. There are alternatives. More at http://www.healthcaretownhall.com/?p=1596
CBO Report On Tort Reform And Health Care Flawed
Jeremy Engdahl-Johnson | October 13, 2009 6:14 PMHonolulu, HI
Dr. Kirsch: Thanks for the reply. Can you give me the signs and symptoms for the defensive medicine CAT scan and the colonoscopy? That way I can better understand why this is not medically justified....
CBO Report On Tort Reform And Health Care Flawed
Wayne Parsons | October 13, 2009 2:06 PMHonolulu, HI
Wayne, it's hard to respond to the 'if it's your wife or daughter' hypothetical, as I wouldn't be sufficiently objective to advise my own family. I have ordered colonoscopies and CAT scans for defen...
CBO Report On Tort Reform And Health Care Flawed
Michael Kirsch, M.D. | October 13, 2009 1:44 PMHonolulu, HI
Thanks Jane. I read your excellent article and the NPR analysis is spot on! I wish the doctors would engage in this dialogue with more than just slogans and already disproven facts. I am looking for...
CBO Report On Tort Reform And Health Care Flawed
Wayne Parsons | October 13, 2009 12:17 PMHonolulu, HI
Please take a look at our news post on this argument!!! see: http://www.injuryboard.com/national-news/how-you-drive-up-health-costs-.aspx?googleid=272526 NPR is taking a serious in depth lo...
CBO Report On Tort Reform And Health Care Flawed
Jane Akre | October 13, 2009 11:36 AMHonolulu, HI

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