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Podcast: Clinician's Roundtable
Episode: Health Courts and Mediation Alternatives
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Guest: Max Brown
Host: Bruce Japsen
Though tort reform has been an elusive goal for some state lawmakers and Congress, health reform will bring grants to come up with alternative medical liability reform initiatives. But meanwhile, some medical providers have developed their own answers. Max Brown, Vice President and General Counsel to Rush University Medical Center in Chicago tells host Bruce Japsen about the hospital's mediation program that has dramatically lowered the academic medical center's liability costs and has become a national model followed by others.