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To find fault is easy, to find no-fault is fair

Richard J Epstein
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/fhj.2022-0049
Future Healthc J March 2023
Richard J Epstein
AUniversity of New South Wales and Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, Australia
Roles: adjunct professor
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    Workflow depicting how a centralised triage step could provide greater first-phase legal accessibility for patients of limited means, while reducing the number of costly trials requiring adversarial expert testimonies. The ‘reasonable practitioner’ specified in this schema represents an ‘expert’ who is deemed likely to provide a balanced view of errors and liabilities for the trial context.

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    Comparison of fault-based adversarial medical litigation (left) with no-fault compensation (lower right), illustrating (i) the imbalance of resources faced by plaintiffs in the former system, due in large part to the indemnity support for physician-defendants, and (ii) the less labour-intensive and more streamlined approach of the no-fault system.

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To find fault is easy, to find no-fault is fair
Richard J Epstein
Future Healthc J Mar 2023, 10 (1) 85-89; DOI: 10.7861/fhj.2022-0049

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Richard J Epstein
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    • Opposed experts: a counsel of perfection
    • The court-appointed expert: one small potential step for patient access
    • Medical indemnity insurers: the hidden persuaders
    • Clinical decision support software: a game-changer?
    • Fault lines of no-fault systems
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