We’ve already had a little fun presenting ‘ tort for sport’ for your entertainment, describing a system that is nearly exclusively advocated by trial lawyers and their minions. Beyond their tendentious rhetoric, however, are the inescapable hard facts that the tort system misses most cases of true medical negligence and wounds too many physicians as friendly fire casualties. Let’s put this issue in medical terms. As lawyers so often say, ‘let’s consider a hypothetical’. A pharmaceutical company launches a new medical screening test to diagnose pancreatic cancer at an early stage when the disease is curable. The test can accurately detect the condition in only 5% of cases. Unfortunately, the test causes side effects in most patients, who experience severe fatigue, muscle aches and joint pains. These symptoms last for several months and then gradually resolve. If this screening test were widely adopted as a routine test, then 95% of early pancreatic cancer patients would be missed and m
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