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...they still represent anti-intellectual, highly social, high-risk activities for students,” Epps said in 1995 of fraternities and sororities...
Thank you for the brilliant report on the flight of doctors from the medical profession. I was frightened to read that in many communities physicians have become unwilling (and often unable) to provide high-risk care because plaintiffs are waiting to pounce on them in droves, driving up malpractice awards and consequently insurance rates. We once rewarded physicians for saving lives. Now we are forcing them out of business. Who is being helped here? We should be ashamed of ourselves as a community of plaintiffs, medical-malpractice attorneys and, most of all, hypocrites who are chasing away the very people...
Palmeri did his homework before giving up on ob-gyn. He attended a workshop held by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, at which he heard alarming stories of physicians turning away high-risk patients for fear of litigation, or losing their practice because of skyrocketing insurance costs. Palmeri then observed the civil trial of a Wilson, N.C., obstetrician who was sued after the plaintiff's baby suffered neurological damage during birth. The doctor claimed that the plaintiff had refused to have a C-section despite his insistence that a vaginal birth would endanger both mother and baby...
Professional groups for high-risk specialties are concerned about the loss of people like Palmeri and Peter Chien Jr., a New York University medical student who contemplated orthopedics but is opting for dermatology, a less litigious field. Perhaps even more troubling, a quarter of final-year medical students polled said they would not study medicine if they started their education over. Thankfully for his patients, that's a change of attitude Palmeri hasn't shared. --By Amanda Bower
...five years, more than she received from any other group. Yet she sponsored a bill to protect high-tech firms from Y2K liability, which trial lawyers opposed. And she comes from a medical family. Her father was chairman of the department of surgery at the University of California Medical Center, and her second husband Dr. Bertram Feinstein, who died in 1978, was a neurosurgeon. He had eight malpractice suits filed against him, but neurosurgeons get sued a lot because of their high-risk operations...