Thanks, tort reform

Before reform in West Virginia: 1 new doctor each year, if the hospital was lucky.

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Criminallopath
Before paying protection money to the mafia…one new store. After paying protection money to the mafia…thirty new stores. Extortion is a way of life. You have to love it.
Anonymous
Amen Criminallopath, ain’t that the truth!
Matthew
Crim,
You reversed it, let me help you out.
When extortion is legal: 1 new doctor.
Extortion marginally less practicable: 30 new doctors.
Go back and read it again, chief.
Anonymous
How is anyone able to extrapolate any conclusions from one editorial about one hospital?
That’s doctor logic, I guess.
Matthew, are you really saying the victims of negligence “extorting” those helpless liability carriers so they can afford their medical bills?
jerry
4:28
Can you extrapolate that all these “victims” actually suffered from true negligence?
Of course not, unless you are CJD.
Anonymous
Since no specific victims are identified, of course not. But surely you aren’t suggesting that no physician has ever been negligent and caused damages?
I guess I shouldn’t say surely, because that underestimates the ego of the profession. And one will quickly go broke underestimating a physician’s ego and willingness to give his brethren the benefit of the doubt in the face of all evidence to the contrary.

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