This “story” about misdiagnosed heart attacks seems like a model demonstration of what is going wrong in the malpractice system. The basic factual basis for the story is that

Annually in the United States, approximately 7 million people go to hospital emergency rooms complaining of chest pain or other symptoms that indicate they might be having a heart attack. A missed heart attack diagnosis garners the highest malpractice payout among all medical malpractice cases and is the most common form of medical malpractice in our country.

Now there are two possible implications here:

1. Doctors who check heart complaints are especially incompetent and need to be driven out of medicine or punished so that they will get motivated to do it right the next time.
2. Heart problems are notoriously difficult for even trained experts to detect and predict so that there are many deaths that, if the doctors had the psychic ability of precognition, they might have been able to prevent.

Which sounds more probable?

This is important because the answer will dictate what you expect to result from the high number of medical malpractice lawsuits. Select one or more:

1. The lawsuits will eventually taper off as doctors are motivated to do their job right, and the bad doctors are forced to stop practicing.
2. Medical expenses will sky-rocket as a battery of expensive tests are used for every complaint in order to completely rule out heart problems.
3. Doctors will seek administrative or other positions that keep them away from ever diagnosing anyone who might have had a heart attack.

Only one of these outcomes is good, and it is obviously completely unrealistic because it is based on an unrealistic premise.