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- Title
MALPRACTICE REFORM THROUGH CONSUMER CHOICE AND CONSUMER EDUCATION: ARE NEW CONCEPTS MARKETABLE?
- Authors
FINE, MAX W.; SUNSHINE, JONATHAN H.
- Abstract
The article discusses potential for innovation in malpractice reform initiatives through consumer choice and consumer education and its marketability prospects in alternative delivery systems. According to the article, the easiest and most acceptable innovation would be a simple agreement by those who enroll in alternative delivery systems that their initial recourse in pursuing malpractice claims will be through mediation and arbitration. Aside from its practicality and attainability compared to other reform proposals, such arrangement would meet the requisite of getting more of the premium dollar to injured patients more quickly without waiting for a solution to the problem via statutory reform.
- Subjects
LAW reform; PHYSICIAN malpractice; MEDICAL laws; CONSUMER education; PATIENT education; MEDIATION
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 1986, Vol 49, Issue 2, p213
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1191423