Medical Malpractice and Quality of Care

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Some 18 months ago, a Sounding Board article in these pages drew attention to conflicts between peer review and federal antitrust law.1 In that article, Dr. Leigh C. Dolin, one of several physician defendants facing a judgment for over $2 million in damages and fees, portrayed the plight of physicians attempting "to prevent the practice of bad medicine in their community." The author argued that he and his colleagues at the Astoria Clinic (Astoria, Oreg.) were held to a legal standard of behavior designed to preclude unfair business practices, a standard at odds with the public's own desire for self-policing . . .

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