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Ectopic pregnancy: T he medical malpractice system has frequently been cited as a contributor to increasing health care costs and has been targeted in many health care reform proposals as a potential source of savings. The medical malpractice system can add to the costs of health care directly through increases in malpractice insurance premiums, which may be passed on to consumers and third–party payers in the form