[angkor]

Patient insurance sounds like a good idea.

The burden of risk would properly be placed on the patient assenting to surgery.

Our current system places all risk on doctors, as if they are unerring gods, which is absolutely ridiculous.

[FITZ]

Yes ---then it could be like flight insurance --if you don't choose to get buy it, then you can't claim anything. If doctors didn't have to pay for malpractice insurance, it could drastically lower rates for those of us not so likely to try and sue them.

[FITZ]

The other thing I think that would do is make the patient a little more conscious of what kind of doctor they go to ---I might not buy any insurance because I know the doctor I use is good. Or I could buy a cheaper policy because I have some confidence in that doctor.