Senate Bill 45 - Amendment Vote Today
The answer to medical malpractice has been protect the profession and it will protect the patient. That simply has not worked. There are now years of data to confirm this. We must protect the patient first and in turn the profession will be strengthened, improved, and rightfully earn the trust that has been bestowed upon it. Today the Senate is slated to vote on an amendment (S.45) that would limit plaintiff attorneys's fees. Of course everyone would prefer to be in a good relationship with a physician than an attorney, but when the relationship with the medical professional cripples because of negligent and preventable injurious care a patient's access to an attorney should not be limited. But that is exactly what it is right now - and if not limited, it is just plain old prohibitive. Physicians and patients alike must start to consider how injurious limiting attorney's fees are to the overall mission of improving access and to and quality of care. When something goe...