Saving Northern Ohio Medicine & Protecting Patients sponsored by the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland/Northern Ohio Medical Association (AMC/NOMA) will be a seminar open to everyone interested in health care – physicians, medical office staff, family, patients, hospital executives and staff. This seminar is being planned for early 2004 – speakers are being lined up now for this important event. Watch for information on the AMC/NOMA web site and in mailers to physicians across Northern Ohio.

The objectives of the seminar are to review:

• The effects of professional liability insurance on physician distribution.
• Legislative updates – Update on local/statewide legislative efforts on medical liability and the significance of the 2004 Ohio Supreme Court race.
• Insurance representatives – overview of current companies writing insurance, rate forecasts – perspective on Ohio medical liability insurance market/climate
• Elements of a medical justice system
• Federal legislators – discussion regarding federal legislative initiatives and regulatory issues.
• Legal representatives - Why patients sue - and discussion of a Medical Justice system
• Lobbyist/Pollster – How to get your legislative message across to the right people.
• Patient safety issues and the medical liability system