http://overlawyered.com/2006/01/update-atul-gawande-on-the-malpractice-mess/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:26:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://overlawyered.com/2006/01/update-atul-gawande-on-the-malpractice-mess/comment-page-1/#comment-1840 Deoxy Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:36:47 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=2965#comment-1840 Bob is spot on - and the bit at the end about a "small investigation", etc, etc, falls into the same trap. Bob is spot on – and the bit at the end about a “small investigation”, etc, etc, falls into the same trap.

]]> http://overlawyered.com/2006/01/update-atul-gawande-on-the-malpractice-mess/comment-page-1/#comment-1839 Bob Sun, 08 Jan 2006 01:31:16 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=2965#comment-1839 Gawande appears to believe that doctors "won't take responsibility" since they won't talk to family members about bad outcomes, presumably because they're just bad people, when in reality doctors have no incentive to be candid about bad outcomes and their hand in them, if any, because honesty isn't a bar to litigation. If anything it's evidence for the plaintiff. Gawande appears to believe that doctors “won’t take responsibility” since they won’t talk to family members about bad outcomes, presumably because they’re just bad people, when in reality doctors have no incentive to be candid about bad outcomes and their hand in them, if any, because honesty isn’t a bar to litigation. If anything it’s evidence for the plaintiff.

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