{"id":53,"date":"2014-05-29T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2014-05-29T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T23:50:00","slug":"what-has-pamed-done-to-improve-tort-reform-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"What Has PAMED Done to Improve Tort Reform in Pennsylvania?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Pennsylvania has made amazing strides in medical liability reform WITHOUT CAPS! Follow the link to see the&#160; summary of opportunities that other states can pursue without damaging victims\u2019 rights.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5>What Has PAMED Done to Improve Tort Reform in Pennsylvania? <\/h5>\n<p>Most Pennsylvania physicians \u2014 more than 93 percent according to a 2009 study published in the <em>Journal of the American Medical Association<\/em> \u2014report that they continue to engage in defensive medicine as a result of the state\u2019s hostile medical liability environment.<\/p>\n<p>Physicians often ask us, \u201cWhat has the Pennsylvania Medical Society [PAMED] done to address this problem in the past and what are you doing now to achieve meaningful tort reform in Pennsylvania?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pamedsoc.org\/MainMenuCategories\/Laws-Politics\/News-from-Harrisburg\/Tort-Reform.html?utm_source=MagnetMail&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=Hughes&amp;utm_campaign=DD%20-%205%2F29\">What Has PAMED Done to Improve Tort Reform in Pennsylvania?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania has made amazing strides in medical liability reform WITHOUT CAPS! Follow the link to see the&#160; summary of opportunities that other states can pursue without damaging victims\u2019 rights. What &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=53\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Has PAMED Done to Improve Tort Reform in Pennsylvania?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-liability","category-pennsylvania"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}