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Article Excerpt
The Medical Malpractice Myth
Tom Baker
University of Chicago Press
www.press.uchicago.edu
208 pp., $22.50
If you are a trial lawyer involved in medical malpractice litigation--whether you are actively lobbying against malpractice "reforms," debating your doctor during your annual physical, or simply defending what you do at a cocktail party--you should read Tom Baker's book The Medical Malpractice Myth.
Baker, a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law and director of its Insurance Law Center, is the son and son-in-law of doctors. When he took on the task of investigating the medical malpractice insurance crisis, he almost certainly did not set out to write a book with such a title. In the book, Baker studies the history, statistics, economics, politics, and rhetoric of the medical malpractice debate. He writes a clear, concise summary of perceptions...
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