Best of MedCitizens: Tort reform, human drug testing

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• No tort reform needed. Really! “Apparently, the plaintiffs attorney was able to successfully argue that the paramedics ought to have performed a thorough, independent evaluation of the pregnant mother prior to departure and then refused to transport her; in essence, they should have overruled the judgment of the physicians involved in the case.”
• A patient’s case for human experimentation. “Please remember I’ve blogged about some people experimenting on patients too soon, and I’m opposed to doing that here, but what do I tell this woman? By the time my research is ready for her daughter; it will be much too late.”
• Obama installs Berwick as CMS chief while Senate on summer break. “President Barack Obama, in an end-run around Republican opposition, uses a recess appointment to install Dr. Donald Berwick as head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.”