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Excessive malpractice awards also make practicing medicine more expensive, thereby limiting its availability. The cost of malpractice insurance premiums has become unbearable for many doctors, especially in high-risk professions. For example, Time Magazine reported last summer that from 2001 to 2002, obstetricians-gynecologists saw an average 19.6 percent increase in premiums, and emergency room trauma specialists saw a 56.2 percent increase from 2002 to 2003. These increasingly higher costs can force doctors to take extreme measures, such as refusing to perform specific procedures—last summer, half of the ob-gyns in Tacoma, Wash. refused to deliver babies?...
...national bill presently before the Senate would limit non-economic damages, such as pain and suffering, to $250,000 and cap punitive damages at twice the economic damages, though the cap cannot be less than $250,000. Economic compensatory damages—such as medical fees and lost wages—would remain uncapped...
After all, any pitching slouch can give up one run over a weekend, but it takes a bit more to limit your opponents to one run over 27 innings of work...
...Park, his hermitage just west of Minneapolis, Minn., Prince stood before an awards-show audience and prophesied in his little whisper, "Perhaps one day, all the powers that are will realize that it is better to let a man be all that he can be than to try to limit his output to just what they can handle...
...plagued Bartosh, 61, ever since the birth of her first child 41 years ago but had grown noticeably worse in the past decade. "Every time I coughed or sneezed," she says, "I had to cross my legs to stop leaking or else die from embarrassment." Bartosh had to limit her liquid intake, and maxi pads became a wardrobe staple. After years of feeling ashamed, she finally saw a urologist. "I was looking for a way to make the quality of my life better...