We keep hearing that judgments in medical malpractice suits need to be limited because insurance premiums are driving doctors out of business or out of certain areas. The case for this seems anecdotal and weak to me, and I'm inclined to suspect that Ralph Nader is right; that we could solve the problem better by limiting how much profit the insurance companies can make. (Actually, we will probably solve it some day with some form of national health care, but that will be a long time in coming.) In any case, the issue is currently being tackled by that greatest of all medicos, Rex Morgan, M.D. Here's a link to a site where you can read the comic strip. And here's a link to a letter that appeared the other day in the Washington Post telling why the case being presented in the strip is bogus.