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Public Lacks Access To Medical Malpractice Case Files

TRENTON, N.J. -- More than 4,000 New Jersey doctors have at least one malpractice judgment or sanction against them, but their identities are commonly known only to hospitals and regulatory bodies _ not patients. Physician malpractice is difficult to track in New Jersey, in part because a federal data bank is inaccessible to the public. In addition, The Sunday Record of Bergen County found that hospitals rarely report problem physicians to the National Practitioner Data Bank, even though federal law requires them to do so. Posted by Editor at August 4, 2003 08:50 AM