The Times doesn’t often take an editorial stance sympathetic to the plight of physicians, so their opinion on “Sorry Works” is somewhat surprising:
Most victims of malpractice never sue, and there is some evidence that many patients who do sue were not harmed by a physician’s error but instead suffered an adverse medical outcome that could not have been prevented . . .. . . To encourage greater candor, more than 30 states have enacted laws making apologies for medical errors inadmissible in court. That sounds like a sensible step that should be adopted by other states or become federal law.
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I await the apology of the dirtbag plaintiff lawyer to the innocent doctor after filing nearly all weak cases, in the extortion lottery bunco scheme. I await the apology of the pro-litigation, biased land pirate on the bench for his utter failure to prevent the vast majority of medmal cases that are a joke.
These dirtbags have nerve thinking this apology scheme to promote easy and cheap discovery can fool anyone. Every word of the apology will be repeated, and blown up in giant posters during the trial farce.