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Re: Doctors, Lawyers Do Battle in Wash. Over Tort Reform From: Karen Lee (karen@karenlee.org) Tue Nov 8 15:02:52 2005 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: Impaired Glucose Tolerance vs Gestational Diabetes - treatment?" Previous message: ainsron: "Re: Impaired Glucose Tolerance vs Gestational Diabetes - treatment?" In reply to: Dean Huffman .: "Doctors, Lawyers Do Battle in Wash. Over Tort Reform" Here am I in WA state. The battle is nasty and a bit weird. Weird: WA state nurses association is against the one the physicians are for! And who do you suppose got to them? I am in a small community and we have already lost half of our OBs and the community is the poorer for that. Fortunately we do have several great docs left, but they are overworked! > . > > Doctors, Lawyers Do Battle in Wash. Over Tort > Reform > > The National Law Journal > > After weeks of sparring in multimillion-dollar > campaigns, dueling medical > malpractice reform ballot measures go before > the voters in Washington state > today. In one corner are medical and business > groups who seek to cap > noneconomic damages, restrict attorney fees and > reduce the statute of > limitations. In the opposite corner are trial > lawyers, whose initiative would > remove a doctor's license after three > malpractice verdicts within 10 years and > create a supplemental malpractice insurance > fund. > Visit the Litigation Practice Center > -- Karen Lee, ARNP OB/GYN Nurse Practitioner Certified Menopause Practitioner Mount Vernon, WA http://www.menopausematters.org "Courage is the opposite of the instinct to keep everything under control. It is against inertia and death, toward intensity and life. The little courages of life add up to big courage over time. Resist the offers of small safe quarters in your mind." *****HIPAA Confidentiality Notice*****   The documents inside this electronic transmission contain confidential information belonging to the sender that is legally privileged.   If you received this electronic transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately to arrange for return.   Next message: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: Impaired Glucose Tolerance vs Gestational Diabetes - treatment?" Previous message: ainsron: "Re: Impaired Glucose Tolerance vs Gestational Diabetes - treatment?" In reply to: Dean Huffman .: "Doctors, Lawyers Do Battle in Wash. Over Tort Reform"

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