Patients' and doctors' rights

Texas legislators are working on new laws to correct the widespread patient abuse and insurance fraud in corporate-owned psychiatric hospitals in the wake of a recent Florida court decision worthy of review. In December, the Florida Supreme Court held that a state law intended to hinder frivolous lawsuits by "impaired' physicians against physician-members of hospital medical peer review boards restricted the "impaired'......

The Hippocratic Oath prescribes that physicians should do no harm, but, as Dallas teen-ager Jeannie Warren told a Texas legislative committee, .....

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