Comments on: The sympathy factor trumps medicine http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/sympathy-factor-trumps-medicine.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anirbanhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/sympathy-factor-trumps-medicine.html#comment-70739 Anirban Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:40:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/the-sympathy-factor-trumps-medicine.html#comment-70739 hangon is there any chance of appeal? hangon is there any chance of appeal?

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/sympathy-factor-trumps-medicine.html#comment-70708 Anonymous Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:16:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/the-sympathy-factor-trumps-medicine.html#comment-70708 No what is impressive is your total lack of medical knowledge results in your total lack of understanding as to the difficulty of diagnosing SBE. But you John Edwards clones don't care about getting it right now do you, just as you line your pockets. No what is impressive is your total lack of medical knowledge results in your total lack of understanding as to the difficulty of diagnosing SBE. But you John Edwards clones don’t care about getting it right now do you, just as you line your pockets.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/sympathy-factor-trumps-medicine.html#comment-70697 Anonymous Mon, 22 Jan 2007 04:05:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/the-sympathy-factor-trumps-medicine.html#comment-70697 You can't diagnose malpractice from a newspaper article, but apparently you can diagnose the LACK of malpractice.<br/><br/>Impressive. Bunch of Bill Frists on this site. You can’t diagnose malpractice from a newspaper article, but apparently you can diagnose the LACK of malpractice.

Impressive. Bunch of Bill Frists on this site.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/sympathy-factor-trumps-medicine.html#comment-70689 Anonymous Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:17:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/the-sympathy-factor-trumps-medicine.html#comment-70689 "Yeah GTL statements like "Any patient with heart murmurs is vulnerable to bacterial endocarditis." makes us all realize he is nothing but a hack looking for business."<br/><br/>Unfortunately False statement s like this are taken as the Truth by juries and make guys like this $20 million bucks a year. They can say anything they want: "MI's are common in 30 year olds with Epigastric pain", "Cocaine and Heroin doesn't contribute to sudden cardiac death", A Short of breath, Healthy 19 year old has a Pulmonary Embolism until proven otherwise" "Urinary Retention in the elderly is an obvious sign of ruptured appendicitis". “Yeah GTL statements like “Any patient with heart murmurs is vulnerable to bacterial endocarditis.” makes us all realize he is nothing but a hack looking for business.”

Unfortunately False statement s like this are taken as the Truth by juries and make guys like this $20 million bucks a year. They can say anything they want: “MI’s are common in 30 year olds with Epigastric pain”, “Cocaine and Heroin doesn’t contribute to sudden cardiac death”, A Short of breath, Healthy 19 year old has a Pulmonary Embolism until proven otherwise” “Urinary Retention in the elderly is an obvious sign of ruptured appendicitis”.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/sympathy-factor-trumps-medicine.html#comment-70683 Anonymous Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:18:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/the-sympathy-factor-trumps-medicine.html#comment-70683 Yeah GTL statements like "Any patient with heart murmurs is vulnerable to bacterial endocarditis." makes us all realize he is nothing but a hack looking for business. Yeah GTL statements like “Any patient with heart murmurs is vulnerable to bacterial endocarditis.” makes us all realize he is nothing but a hack looking for business.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/sympathy-factor-trumps-medicine.html#comment-70675 Anonymous Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:49:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/the-sympathy-factor-trumps-medicine.html#comment-70675 I'm curious how so many physicians are able to diagnose the lack of malpractice from a newspaper article.<br/><br/>Is their sympathy for their brethren regardless of the facts trumping medicine? I’m curious how so many physicians are able to diagnose the lack of malpractice from a newspaper article.

Is their sympathy for their brethren regardless of the facts trumping medicine?

]]> By: Greedy Trial Lawyerhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/sympathy-factor-trumps-medicine.html#comment-70670 Greedy Trial Lawyer Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:30:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/the-sympathy-factor-trumps-medicine.html#comment-70670 Approximately 6 days were wasted because two doctors did not appreciate what every other doctor knows. Any patient with heart murmurs is vulnerable to bacterial endocarditis. <br/><br/>It is beyond belief that tests were not ordered for this patient on the first visit. That is likely what the experts for the widow told the jury. Approximately 6 days were wasted because two doctors did not appreciate what every other doctor knows. Any patient with heart murmurs is vulnerable to bacterial endocarditis.

It is beyond belief that tests were not ordered for this patient on the first visit. That is likely what the experts for the widow told the jury.

]]> By: Criminallopathhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/sympathy-factor-trumps-medicine.html#comment-70657 Criminallopath Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:50:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/the-sympathy-factor-trumps-medicine.html#comment-70657 Yet another bad decision. This, however, is no different than the standard whining and crying seen in PI cases on a daily basis throughout the country. Yet more evidence showing that the whole system needs to be revamped such that the decisions are fact based and not based on emotion. Yet another bad decision. This, however, is no different than the standard whining and crying seen in PI cases on a daily basis throughout the country. Yet more evidence showing that the whole system needs to be revamped such that the decisions are fact based and not based on emotion.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/sympathy-factor-trumps-medicine.html#comment-70654 Anonymous Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:43:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/the-sympathy-factor-trumps-medicine.html#comment-70654 from the source:<br/><br/>"An expert internist reviewed the chart and blamed the patient’s death on Drs. A and B for missing an obvious diagnosis of SBE"<br/><br/>Please guys, I have been doing this for many years. There is rarely such thing as an "obvious diagnosis" of SBE. What a bunch of horseshit. from the source:

“An expert internist reviewed the chart and blamed the patient’s death on Drs. A and B for missing an obvious diagnosis of SBE”

Please guys, I have been doing this for many years. There is rarely such thing as an “obvious diagnosis” of SBE. What a bunch of horseshit.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/sympathy-factor-trumps-medicine.html#comment-70653 Anonymous Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:37:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/the-sympathy-factor-trumps-medicine.html#comment-70653 You are dreaming. He is a lawyer first. There will be no discipline. You are dreaming. He is a lawyer first. There will be no discipline.

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