Title

A Medical Malpractice Litigator Proposes Mediation.

Authors

Johnson, Sheila M.

Abstract

The article focuses on the significance of mediation on medical malpractice cases. Mediation is a middle ground between patients suing their doctors and patients being discouraged from suing. The goal of mediation is to resolve these disputes while protecting the rights of individuals involved. It is a great necessity for the judicial system to be involved in the process. It has a highly developed system with safeguards against injustice and must remain available to parties who want it or need it. Lawyers must form the core of the process. They are central to the litigation of medical negligence and they will be central to the success of mediation. It is a specialized area of law that requires a mediator with subject matter expertise in medical and legal issues. Medical negligence litigators, as mediators, will lend credibility to a process that has very little credibility now.

Subjects

MEDIATION; DISPUTE resolution; ARBITRATION & award; ACTIONS & defenses (Law); MEDICAL malpractice; MALPRACTICE; NEGLIGENCE; MEDICAL errors; MEDICAL laws

Publication

Dispute Resolution Journal, 1997, Vol 52, Issue 2, p42

ISSN

1074-8105

Publication type

Academic Journal