Volume 1

Medical malpractice : report of the Secretary's Commission on Medical Malpractice.

  • United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Secretary's Commission on Medical Malpractice.
Date:
1973
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Credit: Medical malpractice : report of the Secretary's Commission on Medical Malpractice. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHARLES A. HOFFMAN, Huntington, West Virginia—a practicing urologist; President of the American Medical Association, Past- President of the American Urological Association and the American Association of Clinical Urologists; past chairman of the AMA’s Committee on Professional Liability and author of numerous articles on Professional Liability as it relates to the medical profession. PAUL B. JARRETT, Phoenix, Arizona—Surgeon and pathologist; past chairman of the Arizona Medical Association’s Malpractice Committee and past President of the Arizona Medical Association; author of a pamphlet on the malpractice problem entitled, “Where Will it All End?”, and also a booklet about children’s accidents, “What’s the Answer?” HENRY T. KRAMER, Rye, New York—President and Director, North American Reinsurance Corporation, New York, N.Y.; graduate of Yale University; associated with the reinsurance industry since 1946 and has had wide experience in the malpractice area as president of one of the nation’s largest reinsurers. JOHN E. LINSTER, Wausau, Wisconsin—Graduate of Washington University Law School; Senior Vice-President of Employers Insur- ance of Wausau; member of the American Bar Association, Missouri Bar Association, Wisconsin Bar Association, and the International Association of Insurance Counsel. Mr. Linster has had extensive experience with malpractice insurance, particularly the New York Medical Society Malpractice Insurance Program. JAMES E. LUDLAM, Los Angeles, California—Partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Musick, Peeler and Garrett, and a recognized authority on malpractice law; General Counsel for the California Hospital Association and General Counsel for some 100 hospitals and special counsel to more than 50 others. Mr. Ludlam is past President of the American Society of Hospital Attorneys and is a writer and frequent lecturer on malpractice. RICHARD M. MARKUS, Cleveland, Ohio—A cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School; Past President of the American Trial Lawyer’s Association; active trial practitioner and author of numerous articles on personal injury litigation. Mr. Markus is a Trustee and faculty member for The National Institute for Trial Advocacy and The National Advocacy College, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Cleveland State University Law School. EDWARD H. MORGAN, Hartford, Connecticut—A Yale University graduate; Secretary (Underwriting), Aetna Casualty and Surety Company; has handled the underwriting of professional liability insurance for over 25 years. Mr. Morgan has had wide experience in the malpractice insurance market, and lectures on insurance matters. GEORGE W. NORTHUP, Livingston, New Jersey—Former President of the American Osteopathic Association and the present Editor of its journal; has served on the A.O.A. Bureau for three years dealing with professional liability problems of osteopathic physicians; and has been Treasurer of the National Health Council for the past eight years. Dr. Northup has authored many articles and a book on osteopathic medicine. AUDRA MARIE PAMBRUN, Helena, Montana—A Registered Nurse; former Director of Community Health Aides, Blackfeet Community Action Program, Browning, Montana. Miss Pambrun has been instrumental in establishing significant health programs on the Blackfeet Reservation, and has received citations from the American Nursing Association; currently Project Director of the Montana United Indian Association “Wiconi Project” Helena, Montana. ESTHER G. SCHIFF, Miami Beach, Florida—A practicing attorney and member of the New York and Florida Bars; legal counsel to Mt. Sinai Medical Center of Miami Beach, Florida. Mrs. Schiff was Regional Attorney for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare’s Region II office in New York for many years. She has wide experience in public welfare law and health care matters, directed legal activities in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and served as counsel to the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in New York. Mrs. Schiff is also Chairman of the Miami Health Advisory Committee of the American Arbitration Association. ELLA L. STROTHER, Baltimore, Maryland—A graduate of Hamp- ton Institute Virginia; member of the Boards of Directors of the National Consumers Health Organization and the Provident Metro- politan Baltimore Comprehensive Health Center; Parliamentarian of the former. Mrs. Strother was consumer advocate for NCHO Region III and has wide experience with community groups and has been active in health care matters for a number of years. MONROE E. TROUT, New Canaan, Connecticut—Physician with a law degree, Vice-President of Winthrop Laboratories Division, Sterl- ing Drug, New York, with extensive experience in medico-legal prob- lems particularly pharmaceutical industry liability problems. Dr. Trout is an adjunct professor of pharmacy, Brooklyn College and President of the American College of Legal Medicine. - CARL E. WASMUTH, Cleveland, Ohio—A Physician/lawyer widely recognized as an authority on medico-legal problems; Chairman, Board of Governors, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation; member of numerous medical and legal professional associations and is the author of several books and many articles on malpractice.