It has been said many times that malpractice cases are emotionally scarring for physicians. Consider this report – and note that these are cases that were either dropped or ruled in favor of the physician:
Dr. Roberts’ bleak portrait of the medical profession hits home with those who have dedicated themselves to medicine, only to find their good works forgotten and records blemished after a malpractice suit. Dr. Roberts cites a study of 220 physicians from Cook County, Ill, who had fought medical liability cases. He said that half of those physicians stopped seeing certain patients, half stopped performing certain surgeries, 90% suffered physically or emotionally, and 10% seriously contemplated suicide””and all the suits were either dropped or won.
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And the patients? What of them? How are they doing?
“And the patients? What of them? How are they doing? “
Probably all the patients Doctor X continues to see are doing worse now because Doctor X now is preeoccupied and distracted with Jackoff lawyer Y’s continual harrassment with meritlous claims.
Posts such as the one that started this thread are the type of emotive nonsense that one would expect from a trial lawyer. Is the field of medicine so bereft of science and logic that people will defend posts such as this because it is made for “the team?”
~Criminallopath~
A poll of 220 physicians tells you no more than a poll of 220 lawyers. It’s just a poll, the truth of which cannot be verified.
Why is wondering how the patients are doing “emotive nonsense”? It’s a question, and certainly no more emotive than the original post.
Since it was already established that the suits the patients filed were not worth even a settlement, I imagine that they’re doing as well as could be expected. The issue at hand is how invalid or fraudulent claims affect doctors, and in cases like that, expressing more concern for the patient than the doctor is more likely an expression of the poster’s desire for financial gain than any real concern for patients that have been well cared for.
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