European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 08, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse By Sid Moody associated press of sick 15 am Roan Medicine do inflammation of me of k insurance some would prescribe aspirin and of a to to sleep a off. Others would Rush it into the Hospital for emergency surgery before attempting a diagnosis consider these symptoms in the last decade tripled. In that Lime the a malpractice Lias i uits if in doctor v. Jail Verdill research ol$954,858. To Solon. Ohio 111 19b3 the Mcd Al in re try in Sill billion in premiums a card a to rest s insurance Marva Tofik i report i ifs k a. To ii i billion including More Lor reserves the american me ,.-, input 10 fiercer it of its members re sued in id i Lor malpractice in the s u mate. 35 percent of its moral. H. A limited the types of cd is told the Ama they h. Will accept. Pregnant Womer Honolulu to give Bull Island stopped Del n i a doctors on that ha/., tallies in the Ace i Laii increase of malpractice premiums to s24.000 a the american obstetricians and gynaecologists report. 1? percent of its Board l members no longer liver Han is. A Survey in m Assoun re ported the Cost of malpractice insurance ims added s4b to a patient1 daily Hospital Bill in the Buffalo. M y area last summer Only 37 hospitals were pert it i i orthopaedic surgery or. Of the most sued up s lies in new Yolk two , who mostly work among the poor considered leaving the business of Tiv a their insurance premiums vote raised Ironi $.100 to $24,000. The St. Paul con panics the nation s largest private malpractice insurer increased premiums 27 percent this year. In Rural Nevada where Many Lainily doctors have stopped delivering babies a woman in labor was told she would have to pay $ 1,000 up front to Charier a plane to Fly her to a Hospital. In a word there can be Little doubt that he he h Cost of malpractice insurance has affected health car. It the United states. Less Clear Are the causes Oll crisis or even if there is a crisis at All. Says Stanley Rosenblatt a plaintiff s attorney in miami1 the crisis Only exists in the pocketbooks o doctors. Doctors Are too stupid to realize they Are being ripped Oil by the insurance say or William t Mixson of Coral , i la. President of agog liability is them of serious problem lacing our specially a problem of crisis no portions somewhere in Between is or. Patricia Danton. An expert on health . I prefer not to use the word crisis but there is clearly a More rapid increase in premiums. This seems to be More specific to some states but possibly because they had been pushing Esse ass what a magical Black bag Ever ready to hitch up his buggy Day or nigh to bring Succour. Norman Rockwell captured this image in his painting of a doctor s a. H "tntoi6 i mar of All Medicine could v John Shurtleff head counsel for Blue Cross Blue que ipod of new Yolk. Then medical technology became less a figure of revue Long Eyou Hdldn t know increasingly impersonal in or the physician who was going 10 Cut or merely been referred to health a the High Coil of malpractice intranet hat abetted health in the United Stales. Public pays High Cost off medical sunday. Decembers 1985 the stars and stripes Page 13
