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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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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 |