Oh come now. Depending on the country, filing a claim maybe little more than filling out paperwork without the need to get a legal person involved at all. Do you honestly think you can say “it’s common sense” without any comparison data at all is appropriate?

Plus, some of those systems have no-fault compensation akin to our workers’ comp system. So again, no need to file a claim.

Your statement on 10:40
“If you haven’t figured out that universal healthcare in other countries is why there are fewer malpractice claims, then you’re not very informed.”

I am not being argumentative. I simply have never heard of any study that correlates universal care with claim number (the word “lawsuit” would probably not be analogous given differnce in countries legal systems). Feel free to elaborate.

That was your claim, not mine. The “claims” in Norway may well be the equivalent of “lawsuits” here. But you can’t give a straight across comparison of nations with very different situations in terms of how their legal systems operate and how health care is delivered.

Dr. Kevin has only been in practice a couple years and he can talk nothing except malpractice and defensive medicine. That tells me he hasn’t been in medicine long enough to be burned out to the point of just not caring anymore.

He is still very much, I would think, under the influence of his training. so, why are doc’s being trained in this fashion?

It’s almost like you are being taught (brainwashed) to believe you have no self-worth and your education can’t be trusted. That you can’t rely on what you know to make proper diagnosis. There is a big difference between the experienced Doc’s and the newer ones.

Why are you not being taught how to have faith and trust your judgement as a physician? Do you learn any hands on at all? Is it just order every test you can think of and send to every specialist available?

Why is med school teaching everyone to distrust the public so completely?

One more question, why do you think the way you practice doesn’t effect negatively the health care crisis in this country? When you order all these high priced tests and procedures that you know are worthless what are you doing to the ins. companies, and to people’s out of pocket? You are surely adding more than your share of problems to a system that you repeatedly tell us is so broken. If ordering tests, refering to specialists, and having procedures done is what you call being a physician now then maybe the NPs and PAs can do your jobs!