As a hospital administrator, I can tell you that malpractice insurance is indeed high as heck for physicians, due to million dollar settlements/awards that have been given to victims of malpractice (let the insurance companies tell it
but my gripes with insurance companies PERIOD are for another thread )
Anyway, this situation is really a difficult one. On one hand, how do you attach an amount to pain and suffering, especially if its something that has debilitated the person for the rest of their life? And who makes that decision? In the case of the older man who got castrated instead of ear surgery, I’m sure he thinks that this pain suffering is worth more than what I think it maybe.
I dunno.
My health system has been able to keep physicians because we pay a portion their insurance premiums. But this will only get us so far.
