Medical Malpractice

Controversy over the modern medical malpractice system has raged ever since the first malpractice crisis took place in 1975, but it is only during the past few years that empirical studies have generated the data that are necessary to produce an accurate understanding of how the system works. Frank Sloan and Lindsey Chepke pull these data into a comprehensive picture in this book, and unlike many other commentators, they do so with commendable objectivity... it is a scholarly masterpiece and is easily the definitive work on its subject. Maxwell J. Mehlman New England Journal of Medicine This is top-flight work. I expect this book will be a watershed in the literature of medical malpractice. I have seen nothing so capacious nor so well done. --Edward A. Dauer, Dean Emeritus, and Professor of Law, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver -- Edward A. Dauer Frank Sloan and Lindsey Chepke have written an outstanding book on medical malpractice. Their comprehensive and clear-headed analysis sifts carefully through what we know and don't know about the workings of the system. The discussion of liability insurance markets and insurance regulation is particularly impressive, and surely stands as the finest analysis of these issues to date. Medical Malpractice should be essential reading for doctors, lawyers, policymakers, and managers of health care institutions and professional indemnity companies. Patients with a special interest in the topic will find the book more accessible than previous treatments of the topic. The book will help all of these stakeholders sort fact and evidence from the myth and exaggeration that too often poison debate in this area. --David Studdert, Professor and Federation Fellow, Faculty of Law, and Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne -- David Studdert ...Medical Malpractice certainly will be of interest not only to medical and legal policy makers but to physicians interested in this oftentimes most personal of topics. For some in the medical community much of the research and many of the conclusions may prove difficult to accept, but by explaining and expounding on a perceived medical malpractice crisis, Sloan and Chepke just might help slowly change that perception. Alan G. Williams Journal of American Medical Association Frank Sloan and Lindsey Chepke have written an outstanding book on medical malpractice. Their comprehensive and clear-headed analysis sifts carefully through what we know and don't know about the workings of the system. The discussion of liability insurance markets and insurance regulation is particularly impressive, and surely stands as the finest analysis of these issues to date. Medical Malpractice should be essential reading for doctors, lawyers, policymakers, and managers of health care institutions and professional indemnity companies. Patients with a special interest in the topic will find the book more accessible than previous treatments of the topic. The book will help all of these stakeholders sort fact and evidence from the myth and exaggeration that too often poison debate in this area. David Studdert , Professor and Federation Fellow, Faculty of Law, and Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne ...[ Medical Malpractice] certainly will be of interest not only to medical and legal policy makers but to physicians interested in this oftentimes most personal of topics. For some in the medical community much of the research and many of the conclusions may prove difficult to accept, but by explaining and expounding on a perceived medical malpractice crisis, Sloan and Chepke just might help slowly change that perception. Journal of American Medical Association This is top-flight work. I expect this book will be a watershed in the literature of medical malpractice. I have seen nothing so capacious nor so well done. Edward A. Dauer , Dean Emeritus, and Professor of Law, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver