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Friday, August 19, 2011

Military Malpractice System Needs Overhaul

Reform of the existing administrative approach to malpractice offers the best hope to improve the military's response to medical injury compensation for veterans, health policy specialists suggested.
For more than 60 years, prevailing doctrine has maintained a "seemingly indefensible inequity between civilians and active-duty service members injured as a result of malpractice." However, eliminating the doctrine would simply "replace one injustice with another," according to an article in the August 18 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. (PDF) via Medpage Today

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