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Instant Response to Bush's Punitive Damage Caps

As if on cue, a woman was mistakenly given a double mastectomy and sues her hospital just days after Bush says such a screwup is worth $250k in punitive damages. I'll get to my rant on this idiotic reform later. The woman had her pathology work mixed up with another woman's, which means there are two victims. The mastectomy patient suffers a final insult: the hospital only reformed their procedures 7 months later, once she sued. Who designed the new pathology procedures? The pathologist who made the mistake in the first place.