The doctor, Compton Girdharry, told the president he would be covered for medical malpractice through the Good Samaritan Community Health Center, where he plans to open a part-time practice next month, the White House said.
Business was so good, he decided to buy malpractice insurance through a California company called Dentistat.
In which case, why is her report on their malpractice sent through official channels rather than openly published?
But there is a chance that they won't be able to, anyway -- they may have signed an agreement with Duke University Hospital before the operation to settle any medical malpractice claims through binding arbitration.
The group consists of California doctors who buy medical malpractice insurance through the organization.
Physicians can insure against indemnity payments through malpractice insurance, but they cannot insure against the indirect costs of litigation, such as time, stress, added work, and reputational damage.
I agree that egregious, life-changing errors should be compensated through malpractice suits, but I want to reassure patients that the medical community takes errors like these very seriously, and we now have many fail-safe mechanisms in place at most if not all hospitals.
For example, one section of the bill, titled "Lawsuit Abuse Reform," would make it more difficult for patients injured by negligent physicians to obtain compensation through malpractice lawsuits.
Biblical counselors may qualify for professional malpractice and liability insurance through the association(s) through which they are certified.
Management, however, was beset with bureaucratic malpractices.
