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Issue No. 5 - April/June 2002

MDASA bid to contain medical indemnity costs

The rising level and cost of negligence claims against doctors led to the public launch in Adelaide of Australia’s first formal and comprehensive incentive-based risk management program for medical practitioners.

The Medical Defence Association of South Australia Limited (MDASA) program draws strongly on USA experience in resisting the soaring costs of medical indemnity insurance.

“The US findings make it very clear doctors need to better communicate with patients if t...

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