This assignment will allow you to consider both health care tort reform and risk reduction programs or patient safety improvement programs and to make a determination whether they work to benefit one another or in contrast to one another.
In 300 words or less, detail your opinion on whether the concepts of health care tort reform and risk reduction of adverse patient outcomes (improving patient safety) work together for an overall improved system or whether they work contrary to one another. Include as a part of your answer the overall purpose of health care tort reform and the overall purpose of tort liability risk reduction.