The rape of American medicine and dragging good doctors through the mud

Lawsuits may be a dime a dozen for lawyers, but they are traumatic experiences for physicians – especially when a majority of them are not found negligent during malpractice trials. Yes, doctors take it personally when they are sued:

Concerning this lawsuit, he did not make any medical error, showed no negligence, and performed his job to the best of his abilities. His insurance company would have easily settled out of court, which to all doctors is like a big slap in the face. His medical record would have been tarnished and he felt like it would be admitting fault, which he was morally against, so he fought the case in court to prove himself right. The court case lasted a couple years, he was humiliated in court b/c that is what a good lawyer will do, spent thousands of his own money, and eventually won the case. You would think that this win would boost his confidence, but instead, he felt betrayed by the patient and the patient’s family, abused by the court system, and worried about a another possible future lawsuit. This doctor then quit the practice of medicine and refused to keep his job, despite the begging of his employer.
My congrats to those patients and lawyers out there destroying American medicine. You’re doing a fine job of wasting our time and talent.

(via Overlawyered)

Comments

Criminallopath
Not surprisingly, we still have to see the article entitled “The rape of the American populace by clinicians committing junk science clinical causation.” It is the height of arrogance for clinicians to be whining about the legal system when they have for years peddled the nonsense of “patient/litigant told me so, and thus it must be true” junk science to sodomize innocent third parties in auto accidents, toxic tort actions and product liability cases. Where did the bull**** of “sneezing can cause a disc herniation” get started? Clinical junk science. Where did the LITIGATION diagnoses of railway spine, fibrositis, fibromyalgia, and myofascial pain syndrome get started. Clinical junk science. Any provider that has engaged in the sodomy of a third party by supporting a junk science clinical causation claim based upon a non-hallmark diagnosis of a condition and the simple biased claim and unverifiable biased history of a litigant deserves the sodomy of the med-mal system (those of you out there that engage in this fiscally driven patient parotting know who you are). Just because some litigant says they were injured in an auto accident does not mean anything more than they have the injury of compensation neurosis from watching one too many “get all you can” Larry H. Parker advertisements on television.
anonymous
Not surprisingly, we still have to see the article entitled “The rape of the American populace by clinicians committing junk science clinical causation.”
What? Don’t tell us you haven’t authored such an invaluable article. Didn’t any peer-reviewed journals, or throw-aways for that matter, accept it? C’mon not even Reader’s Digest?!
Criminallopath
No response on the substance of the commentary? Didn’t think so. In time, the best study would be to take a group of healthy volunteers, a group of people that have not worked out in their lives (do so some light neck and back exercises and develop some DOMS) and a group of chronic neck pain (non-MVA claimed) and send all three to various clinical providers with a history of MVA. I hypothesize that the error rate would be 100% in clinical junk science cause attribution. Keep up with the clinical double standard regarding the legal system. It is too easy of a target to hit.
lawyersux
Again Criminallopath, this article had nothing to do with the tpic of people engineering MVA’s to commit insurance fraud, but somehow you try to rant about that to promote your cause. Maybe you could come to New York and argue that the Twin Towers were toppled as the result of “clinicians committing junk science clinical causation.”
This article is about an ER doc who committed no wrongs and had his career ruined by greedy sodmites. Precisely what I’m going through. And I never even saw the patient. You know what its like to be sued for one you never saw when your name is on 50,000 other charts?
anonymous
I hate to say it, but physicians are going to have to hang tough or find other avenues to serve the public good. The personal aspect of being sued wrongfully because ones name is on the chart must be shed. Yes it is wrong, but a good defense attorney will file a motion to have you dropped. One has to move ahead. These matters may take many years to be resolved, and one simply cannot allow the psyche to be hijacked for the sake of a plaintiff’s attorney representing a client. One risks having mental fission over the issue, even if one has a point, much like one imfamous poster.
Leaving a career based on one suit with a favorable outcome might be regarded by some of us as a bit weak. What do you do when a patient under your care dies? Certainly not commit hari-kari.
The US in particular is a litigant crazed mess, but keep in mind that ordinary people are sued all the time regarding auto accidents, slip-and-falls, giving bad financial advice, etc. You DO NOT have to be a doctor to be wrongfully sued, and one may take it just as personally. Remember too that doctors are sometimes sued merely for purposes of venue selection. This should have serious repercussions for the plaintiff’s attorney if someone is frivolously sued, but as of now it is an uphill battle suing the attorney.
Anonymous
“A Litigant crazed mess”
Who are all these poeple who sue doctors all the time? I think you are talking of a few people who have given all AMERICANS bad names in the eyes of the medical profession.
I know many many people, but I do not know even one who has ever sued a medical professional.
And should we so harshly judge you if we hear of even one true case of doctor malpractice? Should I then say “Well this guy was no good, so all the rest must be just as bad?” Sounds kind of silly doesn’t it?
Criminallopath
Lawyersux:
For some reason,the irony of the dichotomy of the role of the provider as profiteer vs. defendant is one whose significance you either choose to ignore or fail to comprehend. The role of the provider, if one is argueing the point that the paradigm of the American legal system is rapacious, is immaterial. It is not surprising that providers do not wish to discuss all of the money that they make by supporting bogus legal claims with the causation based on junk science of parotting the litigant. In such cases, when litigants, providers and the ATLA, thoroughly sodomize innocent third parties, then there is nary a peep from the providers about the injustice of the legal system. It is only when the same brand of litigant and their ATLA handlers turn on the provider and sodomize the provider, does the provider complain about the legal system. Providers do not have the moral highground in this arguement unless they are willing to give up the cash cow of innocent third party sodomy secondary to junk science clinical causation. You see, lawyersux, it is akin to a child molester demanding his right to sodomize little boys but then complaining about being sodomized by other inmates while in the general population. Moral high ground? I think not. The paradigm is no different then an innocent third party that taps the rear bumper of some sodomite’s vehicle at 1 to 2 miles per hour and then has to deal with the attempted sodomy by the sodomite, the ATLA and provider (who are happy to make up garbage can diagnoses to justify the whining of the sodomite). The role of the physician as a profiteer or defendant should have no bearing on the junk science jackpot of litigation.
Criminallopath
Cathy, what sonuds silly is the inherent medical worship in your commentary. The general populace should care what the American allopathic medical community thinks of them becauae…? I would suspect that you have a greater chance of being successfully hosed by some physician supporting some sodomite’s junk science PI claim than of the physician being successfully sued for a junk science med mal claim.
anonymous
“The paradigm is no different then an innocent third party that taps the rear bumper of some sodomite’s vehicle at 1 to 2 miles per hour and then has to deal with the attempted sodomy by the sodomite, the ATLA and provider (who are happy to make up garbage can diagnoses to justify the whining of the sodomite). The role of the physician as a profiteer or defendant should have no bearing on the junk science jackpot of litigation.”
This has happened to two persons I know, and guess what, neither involved an allpathic provider, except as defendent! The diagnoses were rendered by chiropractors to whom the plaintiffs had been referred to by their attorneys. The physicians were the victims.
anonymous
“The US in particular is a litigant crazed mess, but keep in mind that ordinary people are sued all the time regarding auto accidents, slip-and-falls, giving bad financial advice, etc. You DO NOT have to be a doctor to be wrongfully sued…”
I don’t think this statement in any way should be interpreted to pertain to med mal claims, quite the contrary.
Criminallopath
The chirofrauders and the allopaths rely on the same junk science parotting of their litigants to form their spurious causation opinions. Hopefully, the two allopaths that were sodomized by the chirofrauders think about their own experiences before sodomizing any third party with their BS “patient told me so it must be true” garbage.
CJD
“I don’t think this statement in any way should be interpreted to pertain to med mal claims, quite the contrary.”
Nor was the statement you referenced in any way accurate, quite the contrary.
anonymous
Ok, have it your way.
“The US in particular is not a litigant crazed mess, and keep in mind that ordinary people are not sued all the time regarding auto accidents, slip-and-falls, giving bad financial advice, etc. You HAVE to be a doctor to be wrongfully sued…”
CJD
Still not accurate. Keep working on it.

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