We're not your enemy: an appeal from a consumer to re-imagine tort reform.

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We're not your enemy: an appeal from a consumer to re-imagine tort reform.

August 8, 2007

Sheridan SS, Hatlie MJ. Patient Safety Quality Healthcare. July / August 2007.

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This article discusses tort system reform and reproduces a statement given before the National Patient Safety Foundation Congress on how patients and families are affected by medical error and concomitant litigation.

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