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Politicians are struggling with bipartisanship and meaningful transdisciplinary conversations over health care insurance. Debate has begun to shift to one of the major factors of steep costs in health care - medical malpractice. Most of the media focus has been on "tort reform" which is symptomatic of the problem, not the problem itself. Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority board member and lawyer, Cliff Reiders, wrote in the summer of 2009 how the tort reforms made into Pennsylvania law in 2002 have significantly reduced the number of medical malpractice claims while at the same time the reports of medical errors in Pennsylvania hospitals have increased . These numbers are significant to Philadelphia and its surrounding area as it houses at least 6 major hospitals and health systems - most internationally recognized as leaders in innovative medicine. Though the worst medical cases may end up in Philadelphia's hospitals, there are many simple patient cases that fall...