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Now, I know that you “let them eat cake” GOP assholes are going to point out that their profits are actually down from 2003. True enough, but $5.8 billion in profits is fan-fucking-tastic in a year when you have to pull a drug (Vioxx) that kills people.

I'm curious as to what the use-death ratio is. Vioxx had about 20 million prescriptions resulting in 50 deaths.

While medical malpractice is a problem, its costs account for less than 1 percent of spending. And defensive medicine, where doctors run tests or do procedures to lower their chances of being sued, makes up no more than 9 percent of total spending, the study of spending in 30 nations found.

I am continually disappointed and confused by the medical malpractice insurance industry’s aversion to novel strategies to reduce claims and modify underwriting methodologies. The debate about apology and disclosure is a prime example. Resisters to to apology programs offer no data supporting the widespread, dogmatic position of apology avoidance… a position promoted for nearly 30 years by the risk management industry… and reflective of both a policy and mindset that has contributed significantly to the poor state of affairs in the industry.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), along with two leading national class action law firms, today filed a lawsuit against Sony BMG, demanding that the company repair the damage done by the First4Internet XCP and SunnComm MediaMax software it included on over 24 million music CDs.

Hungary, as other countries which are common destination for medical tourism, has weak medical malpractice law. Some hospitals in the country could no longer get malpractice insurance from insurance companies because simply there were too many malpractice cases happened.

This has been a terrible week for local high schools. Not only did two Harrisburg boys die in a car accident Monday, two sisters who attend school in Viborg also died in an accident Thursday.

A new study by the Commonwealth Fund found significantly higher rates of medical error in the United States than in five other countries. Any serious approach to restraining medical malpractice costs has to address the error issue first. Comsumeraffairs.com has a good summary of the study.

Tvert argued that legalizing marijuana would reduce consumption of alcohol, which he said leads to higher rates of car accidents, domestic and street violence and crime.

The evidence that's out there certainly seems to support his claim. Take theVioxx verdict against Merck, for example;