NAPA, Calif., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Doctors Company, the nation’s leading physician-owned medical malpractice carrier, is pleased to announce the release of “Medical Malpractice: A Physician’s Sourcebook,” which explores the origin, nature, and consequences of today’s medical liability crisis, as well as solutions and alternatives to failures in the current system.
For the book, Editor Richard E. Anderson, M.D., F.A.C.P., chairman and CEO of The Doctors Company, a leading medical-legal reform advocate, assembled a panel of physicians, attorneys, academics, researchers, and insurance industry experts to shed light on the clinical face of litigation from the perspective of the practicing physician. Additional legal chapters examine the litigation process. Public policy experts argue the case for legal reform, suggest changes in medical-legal jurisprudence that can be of immediate benefit, and reflect on the broader problems of entire health care system and its interface with law and social policy.
Four members of The Doctors Company’s Board of Governors -- Dr. Richard Anderson, Mark Gorney, M.D., F.A.C.S., Ann S. Lofsky, M.D., and David B. Troxel, M.D., F.C.A.P. -- contributed their specialty-specific view of the crisis in chapters covering communication and patient safety, anesthesiology, Pap smear, breast cancer litigation, and plastic and reconstructive surgery.
“This comprehensive new resource gets to the heart of issues facing physicians and surgeons today,” said Dr. Richard Anderson. “It focuses on the practical aspects of medical malpractice lawsuits and prepares physicians and surgeons to participate in the public policy debate for legal reform.”
The Doctors Company has been protecting the careers and professional reputations of physicians for nearly 30 years and remains unalterably committed to protecting the practice of good medicine and fighting malpractice lawsuit abuse.
Copies of “Medical Malpractice: A Physician’s Sourcebook” can be ordered online at Barnes & Noble.com (http://www.bn.com/) and Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/).
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CONTACT: Jes Hulsey of The Doctors Company, +1-707-226-0247