A tragic case, and in the end the patients lose:
We often contend that America needs a better system for dealing with dangerous doctors, instead of “jackpot justice” litigation that makes lawyers millionaires. Perhaps impartial adjudication could compensate for injuries at much lower cost. But as long as officialdom doesn’Â’t head off such practitioners, and no better method is created to resolve their outrages, the risk of bankrupted hospitals remains.
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Forgive me for being so bold, but if half of what the original article said is true, that hospital deserves bankrupcy. Who will they hire net without looking at his/her crentials – dr Mengele? The patients will actually be better off with no hospital at all than with that kind of psychopathy.
Samson’s just given us #46 on the list of justifications only a personal injury lawyer could possibly voice or believe.
This is awful. I’ve served on hospital credential committees, and the hospital (if the facts reported are true) *is* guilty of gross, gross negligence.
It’s a pity they have to close, but this is not a problem of the malpractice system — it’s a failure of the credentialling process. (and a particularly abject failure, at that) Every hospital I have ever been involved with has policies and procedures in place to prevent this sort of thing. If this place didn’t, they are at fault, plain and simple.
Sad.
This physician is my hero…he did to the litigious American animal what I and most doctors only dream of doing…screwing them over bigtime…
I am starting to wonder if Kevin can read.
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