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"There is no malpractice crisis in New York," he said.
The survey showed that 81percentt of New York doctors made no malpractice payments in the previous 10 years.
It was a time of postgraduate training, with a working wife, no children, no malpractice bills, no office expenses.
But he insisted that he had never committed a crime, faced no malpractice lawsuits or disciplinary actions and was a board-certified physician in Bloomingdale, Ill.
Consider the case of Dr. Carlos Garcia-Rivera, a Miami surgeon who carried no malpractice insurance, a choice that is becoming more common among Florida physicians.
A check of state and federal records over the last decade in Pennsylvania turned up no malpractice or disciplinary actions against Dr. Kao.
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No other state has a comprehensive no-fault malpractice law, although Virginia and Florida recently passed programs limited to narrow aspects of obstetrical negligence.
Clearly, the introduction of no-fault malpractice would require a drastic shift among doctors trained under the prevailing philosophy.
Jay E. Adolf, the executive counsel to Assembly Speaker Mel Miller, a Brooklyn Democrat, said he believed no-fault malpractice insurance would be a tough sell in the Democratic-controlled Assembly.
Because of the study, and because New York's Health Commissioner has proposed a controversial system of no-fault malpractice insurance, much of that debate may center in Albany.
Dr. Axelrod said he believes that a no-fault malpractice system, which would take most cases of negligence away from the courts and hand them to administrative panels much like workers compensation boards, would make compensation available to more victims.
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