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How malpractice insurance is killing the medical profession

Take a look at what’s happening in Long Island:

“I’m scared that we’re just going to have people simply stop practicing,” he said. “It has been noticeable that the physician community has been quiet – it hasn’t spoken up, and I tend to think there’s too many people planning, saying’you know, four more years and my kids are out of high school, and I’m going to move.'” . . .

. . . And as J. Gerald Quirk, chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Stony Brook Medical Center, points out, the biggest losers in this will be patients – especially “the medically underserved.”

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