City Subjects Residents To Surgical Risk

NYC was settling lawsuits involving malpractice and faulty surgeries so long as the alleged faulty physicians are dropped from the suits! The city’s policy enabled doctors to reduce their risk of review before the Health and Hospital Corporation and to avoid public scrutiny. The government, which is supposed to act in the public’s interest, seems to be guilty of malpractice itself.

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