In our office, three general surgeons, each of us is paying about $55,000 in malpractice insurance.

It's not very easy paying 55 grand a year for liability and try to keep our office open.

I certainly would agree with that. Unless a doctor applies for privileges at a hospital (the system for checking on the quality of their work) is very, very weak, at least.

They came to my office in person and brought me the papers. All I had to do was sign.

Never have any injections done unless it's in a reputable physician's office, because it's unsafe.

We own the office building just southeast of us, at 360 South Monroe Street, where my father originally started his cable-TV company (American Television & Communications) in the early 1970s, so we feel we have a strong obligation to improving that neighborhood.