"Radiologists, particularly practitioners of mammography, are an easy target for malpractice suits," she said.
One of the prime proponents of changing the tort laws, for instance, is Assemblyman Joel M. Miller, a Republican from Poughkeepsie who also happens to be a dentist, and so is a possible target of malpractice suits.
The resulting confusion has turned radiologists who do mammograms into one of the chief targets of malpractice litigation.
Doctors have been notoriously unwilling to say sorry for fear of being targeted by malpractice suits, but recent experiments and research have shown that when doctors and hospitals say sorry, they're less likely to face litigation.
Although each of these cost-saving targets has some merit, malpractice reform and cutting back on drug and insurance company profits would be insufficient and a distraction from the real efforts necessary to control costs.
"Medical malpractice is being targeted right now.
We note that there are numerous studies that measure the effects of reform on the target market (that is, the influence of medical malpractice legal reforms on the profitability of medical malpractice insurers), but only a few studies evaluate the spillover to the health care environment.
These data suggest that while medical malpractice has become a popular target for new cost containment policy, physician behavior may be driven more strongly by other factors.
The European Parliament has fixed on her department as its prime target in a fierce new assault on alleged mismanagement and malpractice in the commission.
Increasingly the opposition and other commentators criticized the government for its hypocrisy in pursuing its anticorruption campaign, charging that the government's targeting of senior MMD members was a smokescreen to cloak its own malpractice.
