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Is medical malpractice the result? It appears that the influx of these types of cases over the past few years is resulting in many questions being asked.

Being responsible for someone’s health is a challenge for any doctor, even the most skilled. But, this is a key part of being a doctor. Most people think it’s a glamorous and high paying profession, but is this what a doctor thinks who is facing a multi-million dollar malpractice case? The stakes are high and they usually have serious consequences.

It’s absolutely true that trying to rush through procedures and not paying enough attention can be real problems for most doctors. It is, however, the doctor’s responsibility and if there was, in fact a problem, they need to be held accountable.

What most people don’t realize is that medical students and nurses can be sued as well. In a busy office, responsibilities are given to them because of our overburdened medical system.

These individuals are usually the only provider of medications or direct care. Giving the wrong heart medication, for example, could have disastrous results. If they don’t have medical malpractice insurance, they should probably consider getting some.

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There are some that believe that medical malpractice is in need of major reform. This may be true, but it’s important to note that many medical malpractice suits are justified. There are doctors, in every discipline of medicine, that make major mistakes and place the lives of the people they are supposed to care for, in major jeopardy.  Most of us know that the Obama administration is moving quickly to fix the country’s health care system. Apparently, they will be including the nation’s medical malpractice laws in with this legislation.

The legal community, attorneys and others, need to watch the developments closely. Protecting the legal rights of those that are represented in malpractice cases are the highest priority. As such, there may be a fight if these interests are violated through the reform process.

Linda Lipsen, senior vice president of the American Association for Justice told Politico.com that reform of medical malpractice is a short sighted attempt to cut health care costs.

“This doesn’t have anything to do with health care, if you were to throw the entire medical malpractice system out of the window, you would be taking out less than one percent of the cost of health care.”

Senate finance committee chairman Max Baucus has indicated that a “serious effort at comprehensive health care reform” would also tackle medical malpractice.

Whatever happens as this proposed legislation rolls out needs to be under close scrutiny by everyone in the legal community?

How do you feel about this?