Medical Economics examines tort reform

As long as the adversarial system persists, patients will continue to lose:

“The problem with the adversarial system today is that a patient might deserve compensation but he can’t get it unless he proves that his doctor screwed up. His gain is the doctor’s loss, which is part of the theory of corrective justice. Well, that theory might work okay for certain business torts, but we think it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense in the medical sphere.”