doctors, malpracticeI JUST wanted to add one thing about the
idea of limiting medical malpractice liability. I'm
instinctively sympathetic to this idea in part because I come
from a family of doctors and have heard complaints about crazy
malpractice suits since I was 12, and in part because I've lived
in Europe, where people think American tort law is insane. But
part of the reason why Europeans accept restrictions on their
ability to sue doctors for malpractice is that they have
guaranteed health insurance. It's part of the social contract:
doctors accept limited salaries in exchange for limited
liability; patients accept that they cannot sue doctors for
millions of dollars in exchange for a guarantee of access to
decent health care.  I have close European friends who've been
involved in medical dramas that would very likely have led to
lawsuits in America. One friend essentially had the opposite of
Tim Tebow's mother's experience, with misdiagnoses and unwanted
interventions forcing her into a situation of