A physician is about to go through a malpractice trial. His wife goes off on a tirade:
My physician husband is going to court next week, being sued by a woman whose husband died of esophagus cancer. She thinks she deserves money because someone died. SOMEONE must pay. Win or lose, the taxpayer pays and health care costs go up for everyone. Win, and tens of thousands of dollars of malpractice insurance coverage have gone into case preparation; lose, and insurance will pay out for her “pain and suffering.” Insurance companies will then raise rates for everyone, doctors and patients alike. The lawyers win either way.
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This article gives No details whatsoever. It is just a rant from a wife, but it excludes anything to help form any opinion. Where are the details? Or, are they not important?
Was it a delayed diagnosis? Was EC missed on biospy slides?
My take is that she’s more upset about not living in Africa than about the legal situation facing her husband.
I don’t know any specifics of this case, of course, but the urge to sue upon the death of this persons mate, probably has much to do with missed opportunity to treat the illness, as a result of a doctor ignoring or discounting the now-deceased persons signs and symptoms as something minor, or trating it as reflux too long without taking proper steps at the proper time to rule out something worse, and burshing off the patients complaints, even to the point of scolding the patient for not changing habits, instead of holding the proper degree of suspicion and ordering tests in a timely manner –or as a result of a doctor interpreting tests ordered incorrectly, or failing to report suspicious results of tests ordered in the appropriate way.
In other words, the doctor perhaps stole away the patient’s opportunity to fight the illness and live. That would prompt many to sue.
People shouldn’t be so quick to judge. I’ve come to realise that even those times when we think we know all the facts, we often find that we actually didn’t. I wish we could hear the other woman’s point of view.
True we are always so quick to judge. If we have all the facts we will often realize that our judgment where wrong initially.
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