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...When the doctors started looking for an insurer to replace APC, none of the mainstream malpractice insurers offered coverage. One smaller firm came up with a package for nearly $100,000 a doctor (up from about $14,000 only two years earlier), plus $500,000 a year for "tail" coverage, to insure the practice for any suits that might arise from care provided before the new policy took effect. The doctors couldn't afford it. So after one of them left the practice to try to go it alone, the rest enlisted their state senator, who persuaded their original carrier...
Like Sosenko's patients, millions across America might turn up for an appointment one day soon and find the doctor is out--for good. Thousands have already lost their doctors to a malpractice crisis that, while concentrated for now in certain states and specialties, is spreading. Doctors are being handed malpractice-insurance bills that are double those of a couple of years ago, forcing many of them to move from high-premium states--like Florida, Nevada and Pennsylvania--to more affordable venues like California and Indiana. The crisis is compelling some doctors and medical students to switch from lawsuit-magnet...
...native and a favorite son of Joliet, a middle-class town about 45 miles southwest of Chicago. The child of Ukrainian immigrants who fled a displaced-persons camp in Germany after World War II, Sosenko grew up in Joliet watching his father, Roman, serve the town as a family doctor. He wanted to do the same for his friends and neighbors, treating people suffering from diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, emphysema and lung cancer...
Early retirement is an equally unattractive prospect for Sosenko, a driven perfectionist who avidly reads medical journals to stay current with his specialty and holds his children to his exacting standards. If necessary, Sosenko says, he would "probably work without insurance," a dangerous gamble for any doctor these days but one that some physicians, particularly in Florida, are now taking. Another option he's exploring is work as a cardiopulmonary trainer and tester for fire fighters and others who must have good respiratory fitness for their job. As for the career plans of his children, Sosenko probably won't encourage...
...final few pages, dutiful, never speaking her mind, never standing up to her weakling of a husband. Chanu is the stereotypical first-generation Asian immigrant, holding on to fantasies of his native land's historic glories so he can feel superior to the people of his adopted country. Their doctor friend Ali also clings to his Bengali heritage, and is profoundly embarrassed by his inability to prevent his wife and daughter from becoming Westernized. Nazneen's children and other second-generation Bangladeshis are the obligatory rebels - they all listen to Asian-rap DJs, fall into bad company, become junkies...