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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...

Read here: http://www.litigationandtrial.com/ My son James died as a result of multiple preventable errors and negligent care in the Fall of 2001 at Nemours Cardiac Center in Delaware. The same hospital where 2 years after James' death his surgeon was escorted out of the hospital by federal marshalls. http://www2.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2004/05/pdf/norwoodsuit.pdf%20- ; www.phillymag.com/home/articles/did_dr_norwood_go_too_far_part_two/ Without Mr. Beasley's willingness for his firm to take my son's case I still would not know what happened. Nor would I have been able to write the above paragraph. I had left the hospital but once for a couple of hours during my son's 11 day stay with Nemours. Yet, I knew very very little about what had actually happened to him while there. After his death when I had alot of extra time on my hands unexpectedly, I reached out to the hospital immediately to get every piece of paper that his name on it and to learn whatever I ...