One of the reasons i posted this is because i think it's worth shining the Streisand Effect on it. It's ridiculous that HHS is running scared because of a single doctor over the interests of everyone else.
And it'll come out if Dr. Tenny's malpractice is out of the norm or not. You fight facts with facts, fighting facts with secrecy only makes us all poorer.
Except that, as mentioned elsewhere in the comment thread, you often can't publicly respond to these kinds of allegations because doing so reveals Protected Health Information (PHI) and violates HIPAA.
Yeah, but one doesn't even need to resort to HIPAA laden facts about specific cases.
Is Dr. Tenny out of the norm for malpractice suits? Are most cases settled out of court? What's the norm for settling, is it the Dr's wishes, or the insurance company's? Did the various hospitals/institutions involved have anything to say on Dr. Tenny's tenure working there?
There's a lot of information to be had that doesn't speak to specific patients.
Even if he is indeed out of the norm (and I'd imagine he probably is; most doctors don't get written up in the newspaper for having lawsuit after lawsuit), there is still a certain limitation in what he can say.
And it'll come out if Dr. Tenny's malpractice is out of the norm or not. You fight facts with facts, fighting facts with secrecy only makes us all poorer.