> He suspected this would ultimately lead to consolidation of doctors under health organizations to limit personal liability.
That's not necessarily a bad thing. Safety in herds and shared risk pools work to limit individual risk for physicians.
This can take the form of larger private practice groups like Kaiser Permanente's physician group (a distinct entity contracted with the Kaiser Permanente hospital/managed care corporation).
It can also take the form of NHS in the UK which employs the vast majority of physicians there and represents them in malpractice cases.
The risk inherent in medicine is real and has to be borne somewhere. Better by shared risk pools, however they are organized, than by individual patients or doctors.
That's not necessarily a bad thing. Safety in herds and shared risk pools work to limit individual risk for physicians.
This can take the form of larger private practice groups like Kaiser Permanente's physician group (a distinct entity contracted with the Kaiser Permanente hospital/managed care corporation).
It can also take the form of NHS in the UK which employs the vast majority of physicians there and represents them in malpractice cases.
The risk inherent in medicine is real and has to be borne somewhere. Better by shared risk pools, however they are organized, than by individual patients or doctors.