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Common Good Chair to Speak at Annual 10th Circuit Event
Philip K. Howard will speak at the opening session of the 2008 10th Circuit Bar & Bench Conference (Sept. 4-6, 2008, Colorado Springs, CO) on "Peer Review Under Daubert."
Common Good Chair Authors Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal In "Why Safe Kids Are Becoming Fat Kids," Philip K. Howard asks, how can we lure children in today's safety-obsessed culture off the sofa? One way is to restore risk into their activities.
New Health Care Publications from Common Good
Common Good's health care staff and our partners, including the Harvard School of Public Health, just published a number of articles and reports on health courts and administrative compensation proposals.
Daschle Recommends Health Courts
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle spoke favorably about health courts in an address he gave on health care issues at the New American Foundation. Creating health courts, he suggested, would avoid many of the current litigation problems but still make sure that injured patients were protected and compensated.
AMA President Supports Health Courts for NY
"What doesn't work is what our state has, which is jackpot justice," AMA President Dr. Nancy Nielsen tells the NY Sun, "There are many alternative approaches that have been suggested, such as medical courts, because people who are injured deserve to be compensated. It's when it becomes a lottery that that's not so good." |
