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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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You still have rights even if you signed a consent form
A consent form does not give the health care provider a license to commit malpractice. While the execution of a typical consent form indicates acknowledgement of stated risks and complications associated with a given treatment or procedure, it does not relieve the health care provider from his or her duty of meeting the standard of care associated with such treatment or procedure.

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	News about Medical Malpractice cases in Illinois and nationwide: Medical Malpractice Rate Decrease of 1.5 Percent Market continuing to stabilize COLUMBUS – Department of Insurance Director Ann Womer Benjamin announced that three of the five largest medi... Read more > House Democrats join Governor, Insurance Commissioner in Medical Malpractice Reform package roll-out OLYMPIA - Dec. 18, 2003 - Speaker Frank Chopp and State Representative Pat Lantz joined with Gov. Gary Locke, Senate Democratic Leader Lisa ... Read more > More Medical Malpractice News >

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Medical Practice Act

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A statute of a US state or jurisdiction that outlines the scope of practice for physicians and the responsibility of the medical board to regulate that practice. The primary responsibility and obligation of a state medical board is to protect the public through proper licensing and regulation of physicians and, in some jurisdictions, other health care professionals.

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.

Confidentiality

Definition:
The principle that prohibits physicians from disclosing confidential comments made to them by patients unless required to do so by law. The law may require physicians to violate patient confidentiality if the patient poses a serious threat to his or her own health and the well-being or that of others.

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Illinois Medical-Malpractice Attorney

If you live in the following cities and need an Medical-Malpractice attorney you should contact our Medical-Malpractice Attorney as soon as possible:

Arlington Heights
Aurora
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Berwyn
Bolingbrook
Buffalo Grove
Carol Stream
Chicago
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Cicero
Des Plaines
Elgin
Glenview
Granite City

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Joliet
Lockport
Lombard
Mchenry
Moline
Mount Prospect
Normal
Oak Lawn
Palatine
Plainfield
Tinley Park
Waukegan
Wheaton

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