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To respond here. weve talked about doctors may be changing medical practice. what about what mr. tarricone is saying? >> its commonly stated by the trial bar that this issue is about taking away patients rights. the thing thats never stated is that relatively few patients who have add adverse medical outcome, whether a medical adverse outcome because of negligence or because of other factors actually get the kind of representation or any kind of an outcome that is favorable to them in terms of c...

Injury. so the way the tort machine works is you have to have a stream of patients with very severe injuries coming in to make the practice profitable because its only in those kinds of cases that theres a correlation with these very large awards. this is the jackpot justice that were all aware of. while -- patients dont want to wait four or five or six years for the tort process to have a roll of the nice and 50/50 chance of getting a recovery. 50/50 may be a good business model for the trial a...

What about what mr. tarricone is saying? >> its commonly stated by the trial bar that this issue is about taking away patients rights. the thing thats never stated is that relatively few patients who have add adverse medical outcome, whether a medical adverse outcome because of negligence or because of other factors actually get the kind of representation or any kind of an outcome that is favorable to them in terms of compensation. why is that? the only connection between liability, a finding of...