Tort reform. Doctors have to pay outrageous premiums for mal practice suits. Why? because they screw up! that's why. Who awards high awards? common juries! Do lawyers create these problems? NO! people do. Greedy people. Lay the blame where it belongs.

Here is one case, a minor one but personal.

A few years ago my dentist fitted me for a partial upper because I broke a tooth and cracked it down to the root. No other option than to remove it and make a partial. In the process he cut deep grooves in my other healthy teeth to anchor the plate. Over the years they have been breaking off because he cut the grooves too deep and weakened them. Now I need over 2000k worth of dental work and he denies doing anything wrong. My lawyer/friend tells me that mal practice against a dentist is difficult to prove and could run into real money.

This is why they have to carry high insurance policies. If a doctor left a sponge inside me, as one did to a friend of mine, and it nearly killed me when it went septic, I would sue!

So, what is the answer? Let them run amok? I don't think so.