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First Applauds Bush Comments On Medical Malpractice Reform

January 16th, 2003 - WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Senator Bill Frist (R-TN) made the following statement in support of President Bush’s comments in Pennsylvania today on the need for medical malpractice reform: “I applaud the President for bringing attention to this national health care crisis. Again and again we hear the horror stories - trauma centers closing, doctors striking, specialists quitting, and expectant mothers having serious difficulty even finding a doctor. The President is right. This is a crisis of health care access and skyrocketing costs, and we know what needs to done - passing meaningful medical litigation reform. “I don’t want this issue to be slowed by petty politics. We must act soon before the quality of health care is further compromised. I look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to enact meaningful medical litigation reform this year.”

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Patients die in hospitals and in care from negligence
Between 44,000 and 98,000 people die in hospitals annually each year due to preventable medical errors, the Institute of Medicine found.

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Subrogation

Definition:
A process by which a third party is put in the place of a creditor so that the rights and securities of the creditor pass to that third person.

Informed Consent

Definition:
Is the process by which fully informed patients can participate in choices about Their healthcare. It originates from the legal and ethical right the patient has to direct what happens to her body and from the ethical duty of the physician to involve the patient in her health care.

Tort Liability

Definition:
The defendant must owe a legal duty to the victim, the defendant breached that duty, the breach was the cause of an injury to the victim, there must be an injury. In most cases, there must be a physical or financial injury to the victim, but sometimes emotional distress, embarrassment, or dignitary harms are adequate for recovery.

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Antioch
Brentwood
Bristol
Chattanooga
Clarksville
Cleveland
Clinton
Collierville
Columbia
Cookeville
Cordova
Dayton
Dyersburg
Elizabethton
Franklin
Gallatin
Goodlettsville
Hendersonville
Hermitage
Hixson

Jackson
Johnson City
Kingsport
Knoxville
Lebanon
Madison
Maryville
Mc Minnville
Memphis
Millington
Morristown
Mount Juliet
Murfreesboro
Nashville
Oak Ridge
Shelbyville
Smyrna
Soddy Daisy
Springfield
Tullahoma

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