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In a ceremony held March 20 at the College of Physicians in Philadelphia, Pa., governor Mark Schweiker (R) signed into law medical malpractice legislation designed to bring sweeping reform to a system that was widely perceived to be the worst in the US. With sky-high insurance premiums for both facilities and doctors and a reputation for extremely high jury awards in malpractice cases, Pennsylvania medical facilities 
