Mastering malpractice risk management: a must for health care professionals.

Neither tort reform nor new forms of carrier coverage, self-insurance or other financing vehicles provide sufficient remedy for the malpractice crisis, according to a TPF&C/Tillinghast specialist in the field. He explains why this is so and suggests how health care providers--like it or not, now quite firmly in the malpractice insurance business--can learn a critical "second profession": financing and managing the economic risk of malpractice.