Liability in Australia. GP’s are refusing women pap smears because of concerns over “legal liability”:
“Am I old-fashioned, better-trained or otherwise naive? And don’t give me the one about needing a chaperone: the practice of medicine is based on trust and confidence, not paranoia and suspicion.”
He’d get eaten alive if he practiced in the United States.
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Most primary care practitioners in the us don’t do PAP smears because of all the legal pitfalls associated with it; just another hot potato to turf to the poor gyn…
One of the problems for many of the small office family practitioners is the chaperone issue; A colleague of mine who works in a small town has to have his wife come to the office once a month and schedule all his gyn exam patients for that day, because he has no employees, and needs a chaperone.
What a self-absorbed doctor? (Am I being redundant?) Unfortunately, there are all too many examples of male gynos raping and sexually abusing patients. It happens ALL THE TIME.
TRUST? Ha! Consumers have a contractual relationship with doctors–just like hair dressers or accountants. No more, no less. If people want PAP smears, they can go elsewhere. (IT’s not so hard to do)
Forgot to take your meds this morning?
“IT’s not so hard to do”
How many have you done?
I think he meant its easy to go somewhere else.
I would be curious to know, though, exactly what sort of “contractual relationship” he thinks exist in the doctor-patient relationship. There aren’t any common ones that I’m aware of.
(For that matter, what kind of “contract” does he have with his hairdresser??)
As for rape, I’d like to know what it is meant by ALL THE TIME. Surely an exaggeration.
Is there still such a concern for medical professional liability in socialized medicine? I read about potential lawsuits in Canada and the UK, why would physicians practice for the lower pay scales of socialized medicine and still under the threat of a lawsuit?
because under socialized medicine the government gets sued, not the doctor…it’s like working for the VA, you don’t need malpractice insurance there because if the physician gets sued the government defends and takes it in the a**!
Male Gyns rape their patients all the time? Where is the study to prove this? Most Gyn docs are female anyway. I think you may be mistaking what your watching in Porn Movies with the real world
“Under socialized medicine, the government gets sued”…correct
But you forgot the follow-up: The government then passes the buck on (as you know, manure has a tendency to follow the law of gravity – downhill) to the doctor, so in the end, it is the doctor’s anus that gets it, not the government.
And while you in a US situation, where you yourself is being sued, have a lot of legal safeguard (right to your own counsel, impartial jury of your peers, a neutral judge and so on and so forth), in a socialized system the doctor has no rights at all. A decree from above can ruin you and your career without you even being notified that a case is brewing upstairs.
Yours truly, corresponding directly from the Socialist Hell-hole
But we have to ask ourselves the question…if people consider it to be okay to go to a male gyno, then,why do they need to have a female present in the room? Because maybe there is a problem with it!
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