PSedrishMD

Curious: Malpractice is a topic broad enough to constitute no less than a good semester's work for a motivated student. In short, from the docs' perspective, it is a complex phenomenon that results from:
1) A change in society's values, where fault necessarily must be assessed any time the outcome is unfavorable.
2) A failure to recognize that ever-shrinking reimbursements to physicians by insurance companies (lead by the gov't-controlled Medicare system) will always lead to less time-per-patient and therefore to necessarily inferior care.
3) An abundance of attorneys, the excess percentage being by nature scavengers (though these are not the bedrock of the legal profession).
4) The Lottery Mentality that exists in America today. This mindset infers that everyone is entitled to at least one large cash settlement in a lifetime.

Okay, I'm ranting, so let me stop here.