A surgeon retires . . .

. . . a bit too late: “A Belleville doctor who retired last year because of escalating medical malpractice insurance is being sued by a former patient.”

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jb
“Mitchell’s wife, Pearl, is seeking damages for loss of consortium.”
Next time I save some poor soul’s life, I’ll have to send the spouse a bill for “Restoration of Consortium.”
Does anyone know the CPT code for that?
Okulus
Loss of consortium is just claims-padding. I wonder just how many awards scruitinize the quality of consortium lost: friend and life mate or quarreling partner and rolling-pin target?
Restoration of consortium. Yeah, there is a 99xxx code for that.
lawyersux
They often sue doctors when they retire. They’re less likely to fight back. An even better target is doctors who are dying or have died. We had a terminally ill neurosurgeon in my facility who suddenly picked up 9 lawsuits in the year he retired to battle cancer. Sort of a reverse “Make a wish” foundation created by the slimeballs.
CJD
Do the insurers fight less when the doc retires? You do know that’s who makes the call, don’t you?
Think about it.
lawyersux
“Do the insurers fight less when the doc retires? You do know that’s who makes the call, don’t you?”
The insurance company is the one who “makes the call” and decides when to file a frivolous lawsuit? The insurance company is the one who decides it’s a good time to “gang-bang” a physician because he’s undeegoing chemo and radiation and is unable to work, or defend himself anymore?
CJD
No, moron, the insurer is the one who decides how hard to fight it, because, it’s THEIR money.
Thus making your claim that a retired doc is less likely to fight back a foolish one.
Again, think before you type.
lawyersux
CJD: DO you call your opponents “moron” in court? Also, and I’m guessing they teach you this in law school, don’t you think you’re more likely to win money if the doctor you are suing is DEAD or DYING and cannot defend himself? I’m making the point, that I have seen in practice, that your brethren are more likely to sue a doctor if he is DEAD or DYING. In fact, they seem to swarm on this opportunity. You just don’t get it. The bad outcomes, which all us doctors have, come back to bite us if we’re on our deathbed (or DEAD) and cannot defend ourselves. Nothing to do with insurance companies.
CJD
My opponents know what they’re talking about generally. How many cases have you settled against insurers? I’m guessing zero. So basically, you have no clue what you’re talking about.
And you didn’t say “dead” or “dying”, you said retired. Read your first post. I understand you want to rewrite history because you look silly, but you can’t.
And if you are dead, what do you care?
lawyersux
“And if you are dead, what do you care?”
If there were fair laws, would lawyers be allowed to take advantage of the dead?
The thought of sodomites picking at my bones after I’m dead (or in this case, my children having to hear what a horrible doctor and person I was after I die and being unable to defend myself) makes me want to puke. But then again, alsmost everything lawyers have done to rape medicine makes me (and my colleagues) want to vomit.
Criminallopath
Or is that until the lawyer comes calling with a big fat check to have you testify as a treating physican such that you can parrot the history provided by the litigant, er patient, under the guise of a “reasonable degree of medical certainty” on their BS “post-traumatic” whiplash or slip and fall case?
lawyersux
“Or is that until the lawyer comes calling with a big fat check to have you testify as a treating physican such that you can parrot the history provided by the litigant”
I (and most of my colleagues) would suck dicks for a living before I participated in your piece of shit lottery system. Why do you think you need to use retired podiatrists to give “expert testimony” in Neurosurgery cases?
Criminallopath
Reading comprehension might help. My comment did not deal with your junk science John Edwards cerebral palsy cases. It dealt with the run of the mill junk science PI cases. You know the type. Some dirtbag litigant, er.. patient, shows up whining about posterior cervicothoracic and lumbar complaints following an MVA. You dutifully run a battery of tests on this dirtbag – each and every single freaking test is purely subjective. The litigant whines and moans on every single one these tests and complains of “pain.” You dutifully diagnose “post-traumatic” cervical, thoracic and lumbar strain/sprain, knowing full well that you have no clue if the dirtbag litigant is telling you the truth or not and knowing full well that you don’t have an “MVA caused strain/sprain test” in your bag of tricks. A few months to a year later you get a call from some shiester lawyer and dutifully show up at court to collect your PI junk science “expert witness fees” to get on the stand and parrot the history given to you by the litigant… er patient.
CJD
“I (and most of my colleagues) would suck dicks for a living before I participated in your piece of shit lottery system. Why do you think you need to use retired podiatrists to give “expert testimony” in Neurosurgery cases?”
So if “quality” physicians like you won’t give testimony, and prefer to spend your time doing things you find more pleasurable, how exactly is that the system’s fault?
I didn’t know the physician community had such a large homosexual representation. Kudos for your diversity.
Anirban
criminallopath
You fetischise with one PI Whiplash/MVA injury case time and on,perhaps it involved you. To file a Junk lawsuit It involves a good no. of players including Doctors lawyers and the litigants , and all three morally bankrupt . So long there will be whore-seekers ,there willl be whores . Some doctors (like the 42nd one in John Edwards case )will always prostitute themselves whatever the case ,provided attorneys are there to seek them .and Atorneys will whore themselves so long dirtbag litigants are there to pursue them.A classic example is the judge janice cooks Statement in a rubbish Asbestosis /Silicosis case,(I will post you later).All three are equally culpable and begs some fundamental questions how long Americans would maintain this lawsuit culture .

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