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Michigan Medical Malpractice: Should Doctors Say They’re Sorry?

The University of Michigan Health System might be onto something in terms of medical malpractice reform that benefits everyone involved. Instead of denying medical mistakes and surgical errors because they fear a lawsuit, these doctors and health care professionals in Michigan are being up front when something goes wrong in the doctor's office, the lab, the hospital, or the operating room. By saying they are sorry as soon as a mistake is revealed - and offering upfront monetary compensation for their medical mistake - some believe emotional healing can begin and lengthy battles for damages can be replaced.

While doctors, medical malpractice lawyers, victims, victim's families, and lawmakers all have opinions on medical malpractice reform in Michigan and how to make receiving compensation for medical mistakes less harrowing, doctors saying that they are sorry may be the first step to finding the truth behind how often medical mistakes occur and how we can minimize them.

Of course, the legal repercussions of a doctor saying she is sorry may be more complicated - some states are passing laws that make an apology withheld from jurors during any medial malpractice court case that could follow. On the other hand, if doctors said that they were sorry more often, medical malpractice cases that did go to court may be looked at more closely.

The other issue that still remains is that many people never know that a preventable medical error or surgical mistake occurred. Not only do they not know if the doctor is sorry, they do not know that their medical complication, pain, and suffering could have been prevented.

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