November 6, 2007

Doctors vs. lawyers special edition:

• If Boston's storied Brigham & Women's Hospital is reduced to accepting money from litigation slush funds, it's no wonder, what with the cost of defending cases like this one (lead story, PDF) and paying out on the occasional $26 million cerebral palsy case;
• Even relatively big cities like Tucson are getting hit by the emergency room/trauma specialist wipeout [Arizona Star here, here and here, KevinMD]
• Docs outspent in campaign giving 7.5 to 1 by lawyers [Dr. Wes]
• UC Irvine and the overproduction of lawyers [Dowds @ NLJ via Bainbridge; earlier]
• In small state like Montana, $333,000 from trial lawyers coffers to sway judicial elections can go a long way [Chuck Denowh of Montana Business Leadership Council @ Helena I-R]
• CBS News decides to cover defensive medicine, but did it pick a good example? [GruntDoc and others]