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Diabetes: Impact of local medicolegal landscapes on costs
More litigious U.S. states did not see decreased amputation rates over those where the medicolegal environment was less adverse, according to an analysis of Medicare data exploring the association between the realities of local medical-legal landscapes and diabetes-related care costs. …
‘Do not blame the legal system for the present state of medical malpractice’
I read with both interest and disappointment Dr. Andrew J. Meltzer’s guest editorial regarding medical malpractice published in the October issue of Vascular Specialist. He unfortunately chose the often traveled, but dead-end road of blaming the legal system for the…
Our broken system: Medical liability in vascular practice
My last editorial, “How to succeed in vascular surgery: A guide for the aspiring outlier,” was more controversial than I expected. I naively believed that a critical expose of vascular surgery’s “1%” would be welcomed by roughly 99% of vascular…