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Encouraging trust, transparency, and fair redress

  May 09, 2012

We agree that patients who have been harmed by unacceptable standards of care should have redress and appropriate compensation and be encouraged to have legal representation and have their legal rights preserved, write Dr. Alan Woodward and Dr. Kenneth Sands. Our initiative’s approach, proven in other venues, has great potential to enhance reporting of medical errors, bring faster resolution to cases, improve patient safety, and reduce costly defensive medicine.

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