Sentence examples for medical litigation from inspiring English sources

The U.S. process of medical litigation is nonexistent in most of the world.

"Our medical litigation system is failing the American public," Dr. Frist, who is a surgeon, said in introducing the bill.

A lawyer who specialises in medical litigation and wished to remain anonymous felt this was a contributing factor.

He agrees that the shortage of midwives and the fear of medical litigation are among the reasons for opting for a Caesarean delivery, as well as women being more assertive about what they want, and scare stories about labour being more abundant.

They sit in classrooms and see films of a baby being born and it's not really a good introduction.' Another reason for the rise in intervention is the fear among doctors of medical litigation; again, America is ahead of us on this.

Potentially life-saving procedures could disappear from the health service because the high risks involved will force doctors to take out unaffordably expensive medical insurance, the British Medical Association has warned after it emerged that the NHS compensation fund may be privatised to curb the burgeoning cost of medical litigation.

On the other hand, a lack of physician-patient communication also generates more recurrent medical litigations [46, 47, 48, 49].

When medical malpractice litigations in recent years in Japan are surveyed, it is notable that the growing number of medical litigations includes the issue of the doctor's explanation to his/her patient as a pivotal point.

In addition, due to poor investment and dramatic marketization of the health system in China, Chinese patients generally spend more than half of their received compensation from medical litigations on their medical costs instead of receiving full coverage from their health insurance companies.

To explore the likely influence and impact of shared decision-making on medical malpractice litigation and patients' intentions to initiate litigation.

Our aim is to explore the likely impact and influence of shared decision-making and shared decision-making interventions on medical malpractice litigation, and patients' intentions to initiate litigation.