Significant Health Care Paper

In many ways, the hospital system in America is set up mirroring our government. They are similar in the way that checks and balances have been set in place to ensure the best possible care is delivered to patients. With these checks and balances there are three main bodies; the governing board, medical staff, and executive management (Showalter, 2017). The duties and responsibilities of each body many times is to oversee and continually check the others. A prime example of this system can be seen through the case of Moore v. The Board of Trustees of Carson-Tahoe Hospital, which took place in Nevada and was heard before the Supreme Court of the state in 1972 (Moore v. Board of Trustees of Carson-Tahoe Hospital, 1972). Specifically, in this case, the duty of the governing board to “exercise reasonable care in selecting and retaining medical staff” is questioned in contrast with the right of the physician to have “due process… when disciplinary action is taken” (Showalter, 2017). In hopes of changing a decision by the governing board, and attempting to reverse the decision of a lower court, the appellant, Dr. Moore, brought the case against Carson-Tahoe Hospital (Moore v. Board of Trustees of Carson-Tahoe Hospital, 1972).

The Plaintiffs felt that since the hospital was licensed and accredited that they should be held responsible for their employees and their actions. It states in the regulations that any infraction of the bylaws imposes liability for the injury. At any time if Dr. Alexander had questions or concerns he could have reached out to an expert in this field to consult

In the health care system there are many laws and regulations that are put into place to protect the patients that use the health care system as well as the facilities and insurance companies. Unfortunately in some cases physicians, facilities and employees break these laws and cause a critical problem in the system. In the case of Park Ridge Hospital and Adventist Health Systems, Park Ridge Hospital was found guilty of insurance fraud and over charging patients. These fraudulent charges and procedures not only cost the patients money but also have a huge impact on health care all together.

A second issue is malpractice. Malpractice issues are always present in an unstable environment where patients will seek to remedy an incident if they feel they have been harmed (Hamric, 2009). It is important to always act in a reasonable way as a health care clinician but unfortunately there are always those who are negligent in their actions as practitioners.

Medical malpractice, the negligence of a health professional in diagnosing, treating, and or caring for a patient, is a specific tort law under the negligence torts. In the medical field, the tort reform has affected many people including doctors, lawyers, insurance company owners and workers, patients, and including other citizens. While large corporations, doctors, and other defendants are benefitting from caps on damages, that is limiting the amount of money that can be granted in court, plaintiffs, lawyers, and citizens are affected differently. Doctor Sage stated in an interview that he has, “never felt that caps on damages had a major effect on patients one way or the other” (“Could Malpractice”). This remark makes those injured question about

Uninformed verdicts from medical malpractice law suits and the rising cost of medical malpractice insurance are thought to contribute to the high cost of medical care. This is because they force doctors to practice defensive medicine by ordering extra tests and procedures to protect themselves in the event of a lawsuit. The amount spent on these precautions, legal fees, claims, and unlimited damage awards also reflect in the rising cost of medical care which intern is passed down to the patients. Today patients are becoming more litigious because there are many lawyers luring you in, with advertisements geared towards lawsuits for medical malpractice. Most of the time malpractice suits consist of falsified allegations, seen by most people

Because the PCS would not function within the legal system, its substitution for the malpractice liability system may deprive patients and providers of their right to court system access. The PCS’ proposed exclusivity therefore raises constitutionality issues (Forray, Fleming, & Wunder, 2014). On the other hand, as long as the malpractice liability system exists, injured patients will still find their way to court, thus perpetuating provider incentives to practice

In Health Care in America, John C. Burnham a professor of history at the Ohio State University, illustrates the changes medicine and public health in America has gone thorough over the course of several centuries. Since the early 1600’s, we have sourced to several different practices, healers, and institutions hoping to prevent another epidemic of diseases such as, AIDS, yellow fever, and most importantly the plague. Breaking his book into different eras allows us to get that doctor-patient relationship and the underlined question of financial cost of health care that we have today. The eras the he divided into are Physiological medicine (1910-1030’s), antibiotics (1930’s-1950’s), technological medicine (1950’s-1960’s), environmental medicine

Patients should be able to go to any doctor or have access to specific types of treatments. According to NCQA “… more than 100,000 Americans get the wrong care and are injured as a result.” Patients are impacted in a negative way when there is no good quality provided to them. If patients are paying so much for their procedures they should not be getting injured and getting the right care.

The year I was born brought a great change in medical history, and no it wasn’t simply because I was born. In 1986 the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act was created. This is an act that the United States Congress passed as a part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA). It is stated that “It requires hospitals that accept payments from Medicare to provide emergency health care treatment to anyone needing it regardless of citizenship, legal status, or ability to pay. There are no reimbursement provisions. Participating hospitals may not transfer or discharge patients needing emergency treatment

The health care article I have chosen to write about is the recently media popular, price hike of the drug Daraprim. Daraprim is a drug that treats the life-threatening parasitic infection called toxoplasmosis. Toxoplasmosis can be deadly for people with low immune systems, such as people with cancer, AIDS patients and also babies whose mothers became infected while they were pregnant.

A tort action is brought about through provisions of private law and asserts that one party has experienced harm from the actions of another party and that the injured person seeks compensation for the harm (Pozgar & Santucci, 2009). Tort reforms are connected to shifts in medical malpractice law since the 1980’s when moves were made to change from court-decided Common Law to incorporation of statutes from many state legislatures (Waters, Budetti, Claxton, & Lundy, 2007). This paper will discuss the current state of tort law, the need for reform, and proposals for effective reform.

Another implication of the medical malpractice crisis is that a huge reason that insurance rates continue to skyrocket is the cost of court defense/attorney fees when a doctor loses which averages a half-a-million dollars (Abadinsky, 2014); it is also the reason why so many lawyers are eager to sue doctors. There would be far less frivolous lawsuits if attorneys did not profit so greatly and

In "The Effect of Medical Malpractice Liability on the Delivery of Health Care,” Daniel Weinberg discusses the effects of “ medical malpractice liability on the delivery of health care in the United States.” Weinberg approaches this topic in several different ways by breaking it down into parts. He focuses on “physician workforce, physician income and patients' access to care.” Weinberg discusses the affect medical malpractice is having on people in certain aspects of the medical field and also how it is affecting those who are seeking medical attention. One of the main topics that Weinberg talks about is how medical malpractice affects physicians and if it cause them to use defensive medicine, which goes into how some people believe that defensive medicine can be a waste of money and affect how the patients are

Just to restore the problems that have been caused because of careless medical care the hospital, state, or sometimes even country has to “fork up” thousands to millions of dollars every year. Just from a hospital's liability act up to 125 thousand dollars is spent to repair or fix what has been disestablished. The thousands of dollars that are spent that are spent for malpractice issues can range from the lowest at 125 thousand to almost 12millions or more (Martinez 12). When a problem comes to the surface that a physician has caused it gets them put on a sort of probation, but also the ycos the facility where the work money and they take money away from themselves. Almost every hospital in our country whether it is shown by state or city has their own malpractice raises.