Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

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March 10th, 2008 at 12:02 am

“You can’t scan everybody. You can’t cath everybody.”

Which means, says Kevin Pho, that you’re not always going to succeed in catching the extremely rare aortic dissection: “No test is 100% accurate, and there will always be missed cases no matter how good the care was.” (Feb. 18; John Maxfield, “Besieged by scourge of medical ‘malpractice’”, Naples (Fla.) Daily News, Feb. 16 (Mahoning County, Ohio case)).

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