Amendment Wars: Things are getting ugly in Florida, where lawyers and doctors are fighting each other state constitutional amendments. The doctors want to write limits to lawyers fees into the state constitution - "30 percent of the first $250,000 in all medical malpractice damage awards and 10 percent of all damages above $250,000." The lawyers, who you will remember, always claim that their resistance to tort reform is about protecting the little guy, not their wallets, have countered with - count them - three amendment proposals:

MEDICAL ADVERSE INCIDENTS: Would allow public access to records of patient injuries by health care providers and facilities.

PHYSICIAN CHARGES: Would require doctors to charge patients the lowest fee negotiated with a health insurance plan for services, regardless of whether the patient is covered by the plan.

PHYSICIAN LICENSING: Would strip the license of any medical doctor found to have committed three or more cases of medical malpractice.

What if all four amendments pass? Florida could become the only state in the union with no doctors and no lawyers.

(Also via Galen's Log.)