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Original publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2005. LC Number: KF27 .S6 2005f OCLC Number: (OCoLC)62294142 Subject: Malpractice insurance -- United States. Excerpt: ... 11 I really appreciate the opportunity to address you on behalf of the National Rural Health Association. I am currently the elected president. The NRHA is a 7, 000-member national nonprofit organization that provides leadership on rural health issues. Our mission is to try and improve the health and well being of rural Americans across the board and we do this through grass roots advocacy, com-munication, education, and research. I want to make three points with you today. One, rising medical liability costs impact and hurt rural patients and rural health care providers. Two, medical liability rising costs also impact small businesses in rural communities; and three, we all need to do something about it because we all are responsible and we all have a part in the solution. First, the quality of health care for rural patients is being put in jeopardy and I can use a personal story to demonstrate this. One of my colleagues, a fellow by the name of Dennis McCutcheon, who lives in a hill-top farm in a very, very rural area of West Virginia, with his wife Anne, have taken care of 15 elderly friends and fam-ily members in either their own person home or in Dennis and Anne's home. Three years ago his mother fell, and they suspected a broken hip. By the time that the ambulance got to her the EMTs were on the radio, and they were told not to go to the hospital that they had planned to go to because all of the orthopedic surgeons that were in practice in that hospital had left. They had left the state and they were not there that day. They were also told that the only remaining orthopedic surgeon in practice in this town of over 25, 000 was at another hospital. So they took her to that particular hospital. When they arrived there they discovered that the only
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Medical liability reform: stopping the skyrocketing price of health care: hearing before Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives
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