{"id":552,"date":"2015-02-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seidmanlaw-net.lawblogger.net\/blog\/your-medical-malpractice-claim-is-also-about-containing-costs\/"},"modified":"2022-06-29T17:09:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T22:09:57","slug":"your-medical-malpractice-claim-is-also-about-containing-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/your-medical-malpractice-claim-is-also-about-containing-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Medical Malpractice Claim Is Also About Containing Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"item-meta h3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/category\/firm-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Firm News<\/a> | February 16, 2015<\/p>\n<p>You hear it all the time in the news. People in the health care profession claiming that medical malpractice lawsuits are unnecessarily driving up costs. Many of them argue that doctors are engaging in \u201cdefensive medicine\u201d in order to avoid potential litigation. There are rumors about doctors ordering scores of unnecessary tests in efforts to forestall any failure to diagnose claims down the road.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of those opinions, patients have a right not to be harmed or placed at unnecessary risk of injury by those who are entrusted with their care. In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2015-01-medical-malpractice-reform-health.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two recent papers <\/a>have shown that tort reform has had little to no effect on the U.S. health care system. Tort reform is essentially an effort to reduce the amount of non-economic damages victims are allowed to seek in medical malpractice cases.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/your-medical-malpractice-claim-is-also-about-containing-costs\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Your Medical Malpractice Claim Is Also About Containing Costs\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firm News | February 16, 2015 You hear it all the time in the news. People in the health care profession claiming that medical malpractice lawsuits are unnecessarily driving up costs. Many of them argue that doctors are engaging in \u201cdefensive medicine\u201d in order to avoid potential litigation. 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