How malpractice insurance is killing the medical profession

Take a look at what’s happening in Long Island:

“I’m scared that we’re just going to have people simply stop practicing,” he said. “It has been noticeable that the physician community has been quiet ““ it hasn’t spoken up, and I tend to think there’s too many people planning, saying’you know, four more years and my kids are out of high school, and I’m going to move.'” . . .

. . . And as J. Gerald Quirk, chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Stony Brook Medical Center, points out, the biggest losers in this will be patients ““ especially “the medically underserved.”

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