Malpractice reform hits my home state

The New Hampshire legislature has to consider 15 different malpractice reform bills. One salient point:

“There is an expectation. We have done pretty well in medicine, perhaps too well,” Woods said. “With technology we’re going to be able to do a lot more. But society’s expectation is that we’re perfect, and we’re not.”

Both the public and the lawyers have to eliminate the expectation of perfection in an imperfect science. Mistakes happen in medicine despite the best intentions. Commercial aircraft sometimes crash – why aren’t the airlines getting sued out of business? Accidents happen in life – I’m not sure everyone gets that.