Your first link claims that "doctors have flocked to [Texas]," but -- if physician supply is a key metric of the success of tort reform -- the evidence shows th

Your first link claims that "doctors have flocked to [Texas]," but -- if physician supply is a key metric of the success of tort reform -- the evidence shows that there was no net effect on supply[1]. On the other hand, we have had high-profile if anecdotal cases, such as the Duntsch case (a neurosurgeon who left a trail of mutilated patients in his wake and was called a "sociopath" by a colleague who filed a formal complaint against him, and yet who kept his hospital privileges), in which tort reform made patient recovery effectively impossible. While there were certainly reasonable corrections to be made to the medical tort system to protect providers against inappropriate damages, the post-reform landscape appears to indemnify providers and institutions against even the most grotesque abuses of medical ethics. [1] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2047433 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2047433