Herein lies the fundamental disagreement between lawyers and physicians. 100% certainty is an impossibility in medicine, a concept that the legal community has yet to grasp and continues to exploit through malpractice cases.
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Just wrote about this–an NYT article recommends that we make certain out of the uncertain! Health Literacy Advice Sucks
Don’t physicians expect the legal system to be 100% right all the time? So why can’t the public demand it of them?
“So why can’t the public demand it of them?”
Because very simply we don’t know everything about the human body. Humans are not cars, airplanes, or widgets. I know this may come as a shock from someone in law where the answer is right or wrong but medicine and science don’t operate that way.
I know this may come as a shock to someone who thinks they know something about the law, but the law does not require 100% accuracy. We can’t go back in time and recreate events from everyone’s perspective so it cannot ever be 100% accurate.
But hey, don’t let facts get in the way of your double standards.
“I know this may come as a shock to someone who thinks they know something about the law, but the law does not require 100% accuracy”
About the same shock as a lawyer who thinks they know something about medicine. But I don’t see doctors suing lawyers who don’t get100% accuracy (which by the way is impossibel)
You don’t see lawyers suing doctors either. You see patients suing them. Just like you’ll see clients suing lawyers.
Again, think before you type.
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