Can doctors be sued for not getting their patients to quit smoking?

December 6, 2006

Medpundit points out one of the endless ways for lawyers continually try to victimize physicians.



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{ 2 comments }

1 Anonymous December 7, 2006 at 10:05 am

The world’s wealthiest profession continues to be it’s most helpless victims. Endeavor to persevere you saints!

2 Criminallopath December 7, 2006 at 12:28 pm

This is exactly the type of junk litigation that I have railed against since discovering this board. The unfortunate fact is that clinicians are most likely on the side of the trial lawyers in the majority of these junk litigation cases (PI, “toxic” tort, etc). Can’t say that I have much sympathy for those in a profession who have long bedded the trial lawyers and now find that it is they who are in the sights as defendants for frivolous litigation.

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