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Tuesday, November 09, 2004Elswhere, the battle goes on. Doctors in Virginia are planning a season-long protest in Richmond beginning in January: Beginning in January, physicians said they plan to be in Richmond throughout the legislative session — as many as 100 strong on any given day, said Dr. Mitchell Miller, a family physician in Virginia Beach and outgoing president of the state medical society. The "White Coats on Call" campaign, which kicked off during the medical society's annual meeting in Arlington this past weekend, will differ from previous attempts by doctors to draw attention to the rising cost of medical-malpractice insurance premiums. The lawyers, of course, will be counter-demonstrating: Mr. Harris said his lawyers group plans to call on former patients injured by medical malpractice to show up in Richmond to lobby lawmakers against the tort-reform proposal. "We will have our members there, and we will have their clients who have been injured there, because they have got a very important story to tell, and that is that they have been injured by someone who is negligent," Mr. Harris said. posted by Sydney on 11/09/2004 08:00:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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