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Liability and Patient Health Cosponsored by the Joint Center and Common Good To access archived video of event, click here! March 4, 2003 8:15--2:00 p.m. Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 The fear of being sued continues to transform medicine in ways that are counterproductive to many health care constituencies. How has this fear of legal action affected important patient health issues such as access to care, medical errors, and innovation? The first panel will discuss this question and examine the impact of liability on the quality and availability of health care. Panel two will examine existing and imagined alternative adjudication and compensation structures from a patient perspective. Alternatives include a special medical court, a no-fault system versus a fault-based administrative system, as well as a system based on the vaccine injury compensation model.
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