Another story showing how the current malpractice system is failing us

“Other advocates say that the malpractice system encourages healthcare providers to remain silent about mistakes, undercutting efforts to improve patient safety. They want to get away from courts altogether, setting up a schedule of payments for victims of medical mistakes if they can simply prove their injury was ‘avoidable’ rather than a result of negligence. Last month, the panel that sets standards for US hospitals, the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, included this so-called ‘no fault’ system in its menu of reforms that could create a ‘patient-centered’ malpractice system.”