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"It's tempting to lay all medical error at the feet of bad doctors, but that can't be the whole story, as Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande points out, for the simple reason that good doctors make mistakes too. Studies of specific types of medical error suggest that it is not just a small subset of doctors who commit them, a rotten few who are responsible for all the problems. Rather, every physician is destined to make at least one horrible mistake in the course of a career—and most will carry the memory and shame of it for the rest of their lives. It isn't just doctors who err." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Malpractice law needs an overhaul for many reasons, not the least of which is its failure to punish and weed out bad doctors, and to compensate patients who are harmed by medical error. But most discussions of malpractice reform have yet to consider patients' need for more balanced and evidence-based information. Things are beginning to change. The state of Washington recently passed a bill that recognizes the legal status of informed patient choice." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"The rising cost of malpractice insurance is causing a rebellion among doctors forced to pay the price for our litigious culture (and a few bad doctors) regardless of their own track record and commitment to quality care. Some, caught between the ever-present fears of litigation and the mounting costs of insurance, are shielding their assets and practicing without insurance, while others are leaving the practice of medicine altogether." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"This book is much more about bad drugs than about bad doctors. Although some of the cases do involve gross medical negligence, Medication Madness is not meant to be an indictment of incompetent doctors. It's about the harmful, spellbinding effects of psychiatric drugs, even when prescribed at approved doses by well-intentioned, seemingly informed doctors. As some cases illustrate, even sophisticated physicians, including psychiatrists, can be driven mad by psychiatric medications that have been prescribed to them." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"This secrecy is systemic, and it works to protect bad doctors and bad drugs, just as today's medical industry has shown it prefers. But there is one system, woefully underfunded and weak, that collects deaths and injuries from prescription drugs. The system, called Med-Watch, runs on a voluntary basis. The government encourages doctors to file a MedWatch report whenever a patient is harmed by a drug, but there is no law requiring them to do so. The FDA, which operates the system, has no way of knowing how many of the injuries caused by drugs actually get recorded." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Doctors, yes, I'm sure there are bad doctors out there, but not my family doctor, not the wonderful Mayo Clinic-trained oncologist who is taking care of me now." Then it struck me. I realized patients want treatment, and hope. They don't want to hear the harsh realities of cancer, even if the treatment is ineffective. "Don't leave us with nothing to hope for" is what is on many cancer patients' lips." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"It's tempting to lay all medical error at the feet of bad doctors, but that can't be the whole story, as Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande points out, for the simple reason that good doctors make mistakes too. Studies of specific types of medical error suggest that it is not just a small subset of doctors who commit them, a rotten few who are responsible for all the problems. Rather, every physician is destined to make at least one horrible mistake in the course of a career—and most will carry the memory and shame of it for the rest of their lives. It isn't just doctors who err." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Malpractice law needs an overhaul for many reasons, not the least of which is its failure to punish and weed out bad doctors, and to compensate patients who are harmed by medical error. But most discussions of malpractice reform have yet to consider patients' need for more balanced and evidence-based information. Things are beginning to change. The state of Washington recently passed a bill that recognizes the legal status of informed patient choice." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"True, there are bad doctors, just as there are bad lawyers and bad senators and bad mechanics. But what if the bad guys have the best political skills? Bad legislators often get reelected, term after term. What if bad doctors gain control of the peer review committees? The community might end up with the Titipu solution. In Titipu, scene of Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado, the emperor (like Ralph Nader) was upset because no one had been beheaded recently." - Jane M. Orient, M.D., Your Doctor is Not In: Healthy skepticism about national health care (Get the book.)

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