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Florida Law R eview olume 64 | Issue 2 Article 6 10-17-2012 J ust What the Doctor Ordered ? How the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act May Cure Florida’s Patients’ Right to Know About Adverse Medical Incidents (Amendment 7) Kelly G. Dunberg Follow this and additional works at : /flr Part of the Constitutional Law Commons, Health Law Commons, and the Insurance Law Commons Recommended Citation Kelly G. Dunberg, J ust What the Doctor Ordered? How the Patient Safety a nd Quality I mpr ovement Act May C ure Florida’s Patients’ Rig ht to Know About Adverse Medical Incidents (Am endment 7), 64 Fla. L. Rev. 513 (2012). Available at : /flr/vol64/iss2/6 This Note is brought to you for free and open access by UF Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Florida Law R eview by an authorized administrator of UF Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact outler@. Dunberg: Just What the Doctor Ordered? How the Patient Safety and Quality NOTE JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED? HOW THE PATIENT SAFETY AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT ACT MAY CURE FLORIDA’S PATIENTS’ RIGHT TO KNOW ABOUT ADVERSE MEDICAL INCIDENTS (AMENDMENT 7) Kelly G. Dunberg* Abstract This Note addresses the impact of Florida’s Patients’ Right to Know About Adverse Medical Incidents (commonly known as Amendment 7) on the peer review process and the quality of healthcare in Florida. Enacted