Eyes Wide Shut
May 4, 2009
Over the past decade, nearly 40 Pennsylvania hospitals, maternity units and other major medical facilities have shut down due to skyrocketing medical liability costs. In the past seven years, more than half of Pennsylvania’s 25,000 doctors have been sued. Yet strangely enough, Gov. Ed Rendell has proclaimed the state’s medical liability crisis is over. Gerald O’Malley – a physician and board member of Doctor’s Advocate – has an op-ed on Pennsylvania’s “non-crisis” that is well worth reading.
Rendell fiddles while Pennsylvania burns.