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“Too little progress has been made in identifying, learning from, and ameliorating medical error. It is clearly time to actively explore and test alternatives to the medical liability system.”
 
Those words come from Healthcare at the Crossroads: Strategies for Improving the Medical Liability System and Preventing Patient Injury, a landmark report on patient safety from The Joint Commission, the independent nonprofit that sets standards and accredits U.S. health care organizations. They were written seven years ago.

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