These D-I-Y tort reform strategies have reduced lawsuit rates among Medical Justice doctors from about 10 percent a year to less than 2 percent and have helped countless physicians be dropped from their existing frivolous cases. After concluding that existing reforms failed to bring common sense and justice to the medical-legal field, Dr. Jeffrey Segal, a board-certified neurosurgeon, tried a new approach.

He launched the membership-based organization, Medical Justice Services, which provides the money and other resources for those facing meritless litigation to countersue. Among its other services, Medical Justice provides a practice infrastructure to significantly reduce the likelihood of a physician being named in a frivolous lawsuit in the first place.

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Emerging Threat to Cosmetic Surgeons – On the Internet! In a competitive field like cosmetic surgery, reputation is a physician's most valuable asset. Physicians spend years developing expert skills and building strong reputations. There is, however, a new threat that can destroy in days what one spent years building. That threat is Internet libel.

In the past year, the Internet has seen an explosion of "physician rating" websites and blogs where patients (or anyone really) can slam their doctor anonymously. Physicians and medical societies across the country and around the world have condemned this practice as unfair and dangerous.

Fortunately, Medical Justice has developed a solution to this issue, and we've already seen excellent success. We recommend every physician periodically check out websites like ratemds.com and healthgrades.com. We recommend every physician also periodically Google their name and investigate to see what's out there. Whether or not there's anything out there now, Medical Justice proprietary programs can help you prevent future libel of your good name on the Internet.

So what can be done? Unfortunately, the legal precedent protects these websites from legal action. Additionally, patient-physician confidentiality as well as the anonymous nature of the posts make successful sanctioning of the patient unlikely.