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Michelle M. Mello

  • Liability

    The Medical Liability Climate: The Calm Between Storms Is the Time For Reforms

    By: Michelle Mello, JD, PhDStanford Law School and Stanford University School of Medicine On November 4, Californians will vote on Proposition 46, a ballot initiative to adjust the $250,000 state’s noneconomic damages cap in medical malpractice cases…

    The Medical Liability Climate: The Calm Between Storms Is the Time For Reforms

  • Health Law Policy

    What Is (or Isn’t) a Public Health “Emergency”?

    By Rebecca Haffajee, Michelle Mello, and Wendy Parmet In this week’s issue of New England Journal of Medicine, Michelle Mello, Wendy Parmet, and I write about what constitutes — or should constitute — a “public…

    What Is (or Isn’t) a Public Health “Emergency”?

  • Doctor-Patient Relationship

    Study Reveals Complexities of Disclosing and Compensating for Medical Mistakes

    By Michelle Mello Gridlock in many state legislatures over proposals to reform medical liability by capping noneconomic damages—and growing recognition that caps have only modest success in addressing the problems with the malpractice system—have led …

    Study Reveals Complexities of Disclosing and Compensating for Medical Mistakes