The business about "the FDA approved it, so it must be safe" is B.S. Drugs are prescribed for uses other than what they were originally tested for *all the time.* Also, individuals are different - not everyone is going to react to drugs in the same way, and we *pay* physicians for their knowledge to prescribe and do procedures. If we could all be our own doctors, we wouldn't need them.
The tort system exists to protect the average person. It's an ancient Anglo-Saxon legal idea that doesn't deserve to be destroyed because of greedy opportunists.
Once these parasites destroy our insurance, or make it unaffordable for the average person, they won't give a hoot about Anglo-Saxons' personal injuries. They might even have to find honest work, if they can remember how to do it.
The only way to save the tort system is to shepherd it--and that means to clean out the parasite culture of filthy worm-lawyers.
From the link:
As a consequence of the expensive efforts made by Mr. Edwards and his fellow malpractice practitioners, doctors often rush to perform Caesarean sections, with rates rising from 6 percent of births in 1970 to 26 percent today. Yet rates of cerebral palsy have remained stable in populations, regardless of how many Caesarean sections are performed.
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20040724-105240-6290r.htm
There's increased risk from the surgery and the anesthesia.