Posted on October 5th, 2011 by Frank Fortin
Third in a series of five articles on the 2011 MMS Physician Workforce Study Our 10th annual workforce study suggests that while medical malpractice insurance costs in Massachusetts tend to be higher than national averages, the fear of being sued has a much more dramatic impact on physicians than the actual cost of the insurance. [...]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2011 by Frank Fortin
Spirited debate at the MMS House of Delegates Saturday led to the adoption of 18 principles on health care reform that the Society plans to share with local and national legislators. The principle that dominated deliberations asserted that “health care reform must enable patient choice in access to physicians, hospitals, and other services while recognizing [...]
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Posted on February 22nd, 2011 by Rick Gulla
The Boston Globe took a more national perspective, and the Boston Herald pointed to Governor Deval Patrick’s bill for health care cost containment, but the message from both Boston newspapers was the same: the current system of medical liability needs to be reformed. Both papers stated their support for such reform in their lead editorials [...]
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Posted on January 26th, 2011 by Frank Fortin
The new Congress is already making headlines, including the fact that several members have introduced comprehensive proposals to dramatically reform the nation’s medical liability system. I’m pleased to see this development, because we have long argued that our toxic medical liability system is badly in need of reform. It turns patients and doctors into adversaries, [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2010 by Rick Gulla
As health reform progresses and attention turns to cost control, a “number of challenges” face physicians, MMS President Alice Coombs, M.D. said in a recent interview with The Boston Globe’s business reporter Robert Weisman. Dr. Coombs was the subject of an “On the Hot Seat” interview, published in the Globe’s business section on October 24 . The [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2010 by Frank Fortin
Tim Cahill, running for governor of Massachusetts, discusses his views on health care for the Massachusetts Medical Society. See other candidates’ videos at http://blog.massmed.org
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Posted on September 27th, 2010 by Frank Fortin
Charlie Baker, running for governor of Massachusetts, discusses his views on health care for the Massachusetts Medical Society. See other candidates’ videos, as they become available, at http://blog.massmed.org
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Posted on September 23rd, 2010 by Frank Fortin
Deval Patrick, running for re-election as governor of Massachusetts, discusses his views on health care for the Massachusetts Medical Society. See other candidates’ videos, as they become available, at http://blog.massmed.org
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Posted on June 29th, 2010 by Rick Gulla
The results were resounding, and added more substance to the notion that the fear of being sued pervades the practice of medicine. In a survey of 1,231 physicians across the country, more than 90 percent of responding physicians blamed the fear of being sued for overtesting – one facet of medical care usually cited in any discussion of cost [...]
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Posted on June 14th, 2010 by Rick Gulla
By Alice Coombs, M.D., MMS President I’m pleased to report that Massachusetts has received two grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to fund planning and demonstration projects to improve patient safety and reform the medical liability system. The grants for the projects – both of which include the Medical Society as [...]
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