GAO refutes doctor shortage in report.In arguing for limits on certain kinds of jury awards, doctors and insurance companies have said that high malpractice malpractice, failure to provide professional services with the skill usually exhibited by responsible and careful members of the profession, resulting in injury, loss, or damage to the party contracting those services. premiums and huge jury awards have driven doctors out of business, or away from certain states. Not so, says a new report by the U.S. General Accounting Office, the nonpartisan non·par·ti·san adj. Based on, influenced by, affiliated with, or supporting the interests or policies of no single political party: a nonpartisan commission; nonpartisan opinions. investigative arm of Congress. There are, the GAO says, more doctors per person than ever, and the mix of specialists to generalists has stayed about the same. |
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