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I must confess one thing. When issues hit at the heart of something I do or know, I tend to be quite opinionated. After years of watching republican representatives and senators blatantly lie to the Oklahoma public, I have decided to become more vociferous on the issue of tort reform. Now before I share an email I sent to a state representative, I think you should understand that in my...

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Facts about the current Medical Malpractice Condition in Oklahoma and U.S.According to the Federation of Medical Boards, Oklahoma moved to 4th per capita for number of doctors in 2005. This is up from 6th per capita in 2005."We are doing fine said Carl T. Hook, M.D., President of PLICO. "The first six months of this year we have a net income of 21 Million, which will be applied to the company's...

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Mr. Coffee claims he is for promoting a growing Oklahoma. However, in the same paragraph in which he touts support for a "job-rich environment by fighting for real lawsuit reform, comprehensive worker's compensation reform (additional that is)," he says he wants to "demand financial accountability" for government. Do we not hold big business and big insurance to the same standards as we hold...

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I was just sent an article written by Hugh M. Robert, Tulsa, who is the executive director ofthe Center for Consumer and Patient Safety in Oklahoma. In the days of tort reform and promoting medical and corporate immunity, its good to see articles telling the truth.I have yet to find a link to the article, but the following is a some quotes from that article that are most telling:"Every year more...

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Now, to discussing caps I submit the following which is more of those darn facts and empirical evidence that keeps just getting in the way of people such as our Republican leader in the Senate and frankly Oklahoma state republican party:Physicians say caps on non-economic damages will lower malpractice premiums. The two largest insurers of doctors in the country stated before Congress and state...

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I just read an article on CBS news regarding hospital safety and about a brave Doctor Berwick who runs the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/06/eveningnews/main2440767.shtmlPer the article, he is essentially trying to make hospitals safer for patients. In this article, Berwick estimates that for every 100 patients admitted to hospitals, there are 40...

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For some of our illustrious legislatures in Oklahoma that are beating the drums of war over tort reform, I have to ask why? What evidence do you have to remotely suggest there is a medical malpractice or lawsuit crisis occurring in Oklahoma?Shall I dare say that the reason they do not provide evidence is that none exists. Or shall I dare say that it appears that the insurance industry and...

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The Oklahoma Supreme Court finally weighed in on tort reform a few weeks ago by addressing the constitutionality of merit letters required under 2003 tort reform. If you do not know, thecourt ruled as unconstitutional a provision of a 2003 tort reform law that required someone suing a medical professional to get an expert in the field, usually a doctor, to say in an affidavit that the lawsuit...

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Its election time folks and once again we are hearing the reverberations of the myth known as tort reform echo through the state. Without broaching the utter myth and lies associated with those promoting tort reform, I thought I would delve into one specific area in which doctors and those promoting such reforms like to use as a talking point. That issue is the fact that doctors feel they have...

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As I embark on my first blog, I want to address the issue that is constantly in the forefront of the political landscape of Oklahoma. Whether you call it tort reform, legal reform, or more appropriately lies for fund raising reform, politicians in Oklahoma have emblazoned the public with inaccurate, false, and deliberately misleading statements. So what is the truth? Politicians are...

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Subtitled Forget Tort Reform. The Democrats Have a Better Diagnosis, Ezra Klein's Slate.com article examines the so-called medical malpractice crisis facing America today. Taking a closer look at studies and Tom Baker's book, The Medical Malpractice Myth, Klein comes to the conclusion that tort reform is not the answer; reducing the number of medical errors is. Dr. David Studdert led a team of...

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