Medical Malpractice Bringing Down the Costs

Medicine remains one of the highest paid professions going into 2012. The medical field is still not without instability; doctors are now offering more services, seeing more patients with less time allowed for patient care. With the rise of risk also rises the cost of medical malpractice insurance. This raises the per-patient cost and forces doctors into the vicious cycle of having to see more patients in order to cover the costs. Less time is focused on maintaining the doctor patient relationship and more on “defensive medicine”.

Lowering Costs

There now has been recent developments that might reduce the cost and risk of medical malpractice lawsuits; Mediation. Recent studies have show both plaintiff and attorneys have accepted this route as an added benefit to all parties. Mediation shortens the litigation process and has an increased change of changing physician’s policies regarding patient safety. With this new trend in the legal process, risk and medical malpractice insurance will decrease and our doctors will ease the pressure on defensive medicine and go back to practicing patient relationships.

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