[Mamzelle]

re: I agree with you on the lawsuits. I have argued it should be decided administratively in the government. No courts involved. Just a team of medical experts(with actual medical degrees) to determine if wrong doing. And then along with peoples insurance to determine the resulting costs of the damage done.. and if disciplinary action is neccessary against the doctor.)))

This would work. It's called "no fault" insurance. Not only would it provide for "adverse outcomes", directly to the patient without a lawyer taking his "third plus expenses" but it would add to the greater knowledge and improvement of medical care, since you wouldn't have medical professionals with a "fortress" mentality.

It's ridiculous to think that any human being can function throughout a whole career without errors. With a system like you suggest, they could "come in from the cold" and deal with problems.

[Iwo Jima]

What do you do for a living?

No one is asking for anyone to function for a career without errors -- just to avoid negligence, that is, doing what a reasonably prudent doctor would do under the same or similar circumstances.

Your contempt for our constitutional right to trial by jury is offensive. What other rights are you in favor of gutting?

[ran20]

This would work. It's called "no fault" insurance. Not only would it provide for "adverse outcomes", directly to the patient without a lawyer taking his "third plus expenses" but it would add to the greater knowledge and improvement of medical care, since you wouldn't have medical professionals with a "fortress" mentality.

It's ridiculous to think that any human being can function throughout a whole career without errors. With a system like you suggest, they could "come in from the cold" and deal with problems.

Yes human beings are going to sadly make mistakes. Efforts can be made to minimize it, but jackpot lawsuits doesn't appear to help. Europe doesn't seem to have more accidents then America. And thats the word that should be used accidents.

Thanks for agreeing with my idea and thinking it could work. And thanks for the name of it which I hadn't put together 'no fault'. Thats what I'm going to call it from now on when explaining to people:). The greater knowledge and improvement of healthcare is the most important factor to me above all else. And I think you need an expert panel of highly educated medical degree holders to achieve that. And we don't have to reinvent the wheel, I'd just look at what say France did for that and set it up here.