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Health and life insurance as an alternative to malpractice tort law

BACKGROUND: Tort law has legitimate social purposes of deterrence, punishment and compensation, but medical tort law does none of these well. Tort law could be counterproductive in medicine, encouraging costly defensive practices that harm some patients, restricting access to care in some settings a...

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Autor principal: Sumner, Walton
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2902464/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20525190
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-10-150