of their chosen specialties. Symposium, The 1975 Indiana Medical Malpractice Act, 51 Ind. L.J. 91, 92-94 (1975). The public, asked to endure this intolerable economic strain, is seeking, through its elected representatives, to reduce this burden through various legislative schemes which either limit recovery, modify judicially created rules of law, or adopt a no-fault system of compensation. A number of jurisdictions have taken these steps. (See Stewart, The Malpractice Problem — Its Cause and Cure: The Physician’s Perspective, 51 Ind. L.J. 134, 135 n.9, for a list of these statutes.) We have seen such attempts in Illinois, though the legislation failed to withstand particular constitutional challenges. (See Wright v. Central Du Page Hospital Association (1976), 63 Ill. 2d 313 (<HOLDING>); Grace v. Howlett (1972), 51 Ill. 2d 478
recognizing that even when a prisoner files suit under section 1983 alleging medical malpractice against prison medical officials medical malpractice does not become a constitutional violation merely because the victim is a prisoner holding the provisions of a comprehensive medical malpractice act unconstitutional holding that plaintiffs could not sue attorneys for legal malpractice so long as underlying medical malpractice action out of which legal malpractice claim arose was still pending on appeal holding that a north carolina rule requiring an expert certification in a medical malpractice case applied in a federal tort claims act case sounding in medical malpractice brought in federal court holding unconstitutional the wyoming medical review panel act