Finding fault.(how just is it to sue the doctor(Obstetrician) for cerebral palsy)

Australian Doctor,  September, 2006  by Ferguson, Heather

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Cerebral palsy cases are still the main reason for high medical insurance costs, despite growing evidence the condition may not always be caused by negligence. By Heather Ferguson.

A GROWING body of evidence that a doctor's management of labour may have nothing to do with most cerebral palsy cases is having little impact on the number of doctors being sued.

Lawyers admit it takes time for new medical evidence to flow through to expert evidence in medical negligence cases.

In the meantime, medical defence organisations still pay huge awards for cerebral palsy cases, which ...

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