A lively--though not always good-tempered--discussion of the many issues

involved in medical malpractice: How should doctors be punished when they make a damaging mistake? Do large malpractice awards punish the culpable doctor or the entire pool of patients whose medical costs will go up? WFB: "It has struck me for years that one very seldom reads about disbarred lawyers, and one very seldom reads about unfrocked doctors, so that to the extent we laymen depend on you all to police yourselves, you don't do a striking job of it. Either that, or most of you are angelic." SR: "Which is hardly the case in either profession ..."