With her malpractice insurance costs soaring, Dr. Margaret Lewin is turning to an unusual source for help: her patients. The internist is distributing fliers to everyone who enters her East Side office, detailing her struggle to pay $25,000 a year in premiums in the hopes that they will lobby their legislators for changes to the tort laws. “Imagine how many weeks I must work to simply pay this premium — despite never having been sued!” she writes.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Doctors Appeal to Patients To Lobby for Tort Law Change
The New York Sun reports:
