blowdart wrote:
Word error;

he medical profession should be rigourous, but more importantly it provides a means to strike off and ban bad doctors

And no, malpractice is not why medicine is so expensive. Vexious malpractice suits are one of the reasons (in the US anyway).

Yeah, I edited my message to say "malpractice lawsuits," not "malpractice."  Channel 9 is slow as molasses today.