After reading this physician’s rant, her summary points at the end ring true, especially this one:
The American public must “get real.” Not every medication is perfect, nor every doctor, nor every procedure. “Yet people want perfection, and when they don’t get it, the first thing they want to do is sue somebody.”
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Universal health care. The government needs to cover people who work. “It’s ridiculous that we have working poor in this country, that there are 40 million uninsured.”
Taxpayers should pay even more money into the corrupt allopathic monopoly system to further enrich existing providers that support the limited supply system? Fat chance. If she wants the 40 milliion uninsured to have access to care then there is nothing stopping her from cutting her fees or convincing her fellow providers to push the AMA and CME out of the medical education process.
•Tort reform. “Ridiculous, broad-based lawsuits corrupt the system. Congress is going to have to look at states such as Indiana and California that have tribunals that have looked at how to address this issue.”
What a crock. Tort reform starts at home. Remove the malpractitioners from the field (the small percentage that are responsible for the majority of the litigation – yes you might have to find a new golfing buddy at the country club). Secondly, get out of the “expert witness prostitution business.” Those that testtify to “a reasonable degree of medical certainty” that every BS low-speed rear-end accident or bannana annie slip-and-fall claim is the cause of [insert random diagnosis here] based on the veracity of their patients (the patient said they were asymptomatic prior the accident and now have complaints + I can diagnose something even though the diagnosis is not unique to the history, which I don’t have the training for actually evaluating anyway, but seince I believe the patient I am going to parrot what they are telling me) either need to apply the same standard to iatragenic injury claims or else get out of expert witnessing business. There is a very suspicious relationship between the veracity of the patient and the providers’ views of attorneys based upon the status of the provider as a profiteer or as the defendant. Also, the issue of special status for providers alone, during the course and scope of practice, is constitutionally repugnant.
•The American public must “get real.” Not every medication is perfect, nor every doctor, nor every procedure. “Yet people want perfection, and when they don’t get it, the first thing they want to do is sue somebody.”
See the comment above. Providers have no problems propping up spurious PI cases and clogging the courts with junk lawsuits. As far as perfection… who fosters the god complex view… the providers. Also let us not forget the words of the Massachusetts Medical Society [1848]:
“[physicians should be]looked upon by the mass of mankind with a veneration almost superstitious.”
If this is how they wish to be looked upon and to provide justification for their special place in society (with commensurate compensation of course) then perfection is what we expect.
How about physicians, their employers and their tort reforming colleagues in the drug and medical product industry quit promising the public that everything can be fixed if they’ll see this doc, at this hospital, take this product, and undergo this procedure, and maybe the public won’t expect them to deliver on their claims?
this anonymous freak scares me. Shut the hell up you freaking trial lawyer, no one likes you. doctors deserve your respect, and change your tone of voice or i’ll open a can of whoopass and empty it on your skinny white ass
Nothing intelligent to say? I didn’t think so. And the racism… Time for your meds.
As far as racism goes:
http://www.unmc.edu/Community/ruralmeded/underserved/black_medical_schools.htm
Regarding Howard:
“A school where most of the students are black, next door to a hospital where many of the doctors are black, is a powerful reminder that decades of segregation and prejudice created a demand for such an institution. In an earlier era, many hospitals and doctors in the United States refused African American patients, and medical schools wouldn’t train African American physicians.”
“As far back as 1910, a scathing critique of U.S. medical education, known as the Flexner Report, cataloged academic and clinical deficiencies at dozens of schools, many of them under-funded. Medical schools that catered to black students were hit especially hard, and fallout from the report effectively shut down all but two: Howard and Meharry.“
And this is what you respect?
Are you suggesting that black medical schools should be held to a lower standard than white schools, simply because we need more black doctors?
Thats a Faustian bargain if I’ve ever heard of one. What kind of message does that send?
Yes, sir we have a clinic full of black doctors. But unfortunately we had to lower standards to get them thru the system. But at least they are black.
America needs GOOD doctors, whether they are white or black.
Not at all. Everybody should be held to the same standards. Affirmative action is just a PC name for racism… just like the historical context of excluding Blacks from medical practice secondary to the color of their skin.
The commentary was directed to the poster who was making references to “skinny white asses.” I have a hard time seeing a Caucasian making such a racist comment about their own color… If by chance, the person was Black, he/she/it should at least understand the history of what they are defending.
“doctors deserve your respect, and change your tone of voice or i’ll open a can of whoopass and empty it on your skinny white ass”
Is there anyone tougher than an anonymous internet warrior? I think not.
This internet warrior sounds like Dr. Bennett. You allow him in here Kevin?
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