"Patients who arrive at a doctor’s office could be given one more form
to fill out — a waiver for their right to a jury trial if they ever
accused the doctor of botching their care — under compromise legislation
passed out of a key Senate committee on Thursday," reports the Miami Herald. "The provision
is one of a series of changes packed together into a wide-ranging bill
passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill also ends the
long-running war between ophthalmologists and optometrists over whether
non-medical doctors can dispense prescriptions. By merging the
proposals together, the compromise, crafted by Sen. Don Gaetz,
R-Niceville, and Sen. John Thrasher, R-St. Augustine, is intended to win
enough votes for long-sought medical malpractice reforms in the
traditionally reluctant Senate. It also gives the
politically-influential optometrists the prescription powers they have
wanted for a decade." Read more.
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