Reuters reported that increasingly, more and more US physicians are finding themselves charged with medical negligence or criminal malpractice in cases regarding how prescription medications were handled. Concerned about the small but growing trend, the American Medical Association warns that the increased number of such cases may interfere with how medicine is practiced, particularly since physicians were found liable for monetary damages in court. Reuters quoted an AMA resolution adopted in 1995 that opposes the “attempted criminalization of health care decision-making especially as represented by the current trend toward the criminalization of malpractice.”
From the American Association for Justice news release.
