More frustration boils over in this letter:
I can not think of a single colleague who enjoys practicing medicine due to the fear of litigation.Lawyers are only too aware that they don’t need to be correct but to have just enough information to convince a jury of laypeople. Why is there rarely a case brought against a lawyer for a frivolous lawsuit? Why isn’t it automatic for the loser to pay the legal costs of both parties?
Why do doctors treat anyone who practices malpractice law? Because physicians have a deeply rooted moral code of ethics.
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Anon 9:03:
re: “Are you saying that you dont get a financial incentive to make sure pts have paps, mammo’s and colonoscopies?”
That is exactly the truth. I get no additional money for making sure you are referred out for your preventive exams. That is the truth and I am a PCP so I think I might actually know a little more about the subject than you do.
to the anon making the idiotic accusations about getting more money to send patients for recommended screenings:
your accusations are idiotic.
“Weather they need one or not, or regardless of their risk factors, or lack of? “
Um, it’s “whether”; and no money is made (or i make no money, or i earn no money whether or not, irregardless, not regarding, or however you want to f—ing say it) for referring to recommended screenings.
If there is let me know- I think it’s a great idea to help keep patients healthy & keep pcp’s afloat in this sucky atmosphere of patients like you and insurers like yours.
Then you all need to go jump on the same band wagon “Dr. #1 Dinosaur” is on. He sure seems to make money from doing exactly that. At this time it is about his second or third post down. He does practice in the states, so why would it be the case for him and not you?
i dunno. do all massages end with a “happy ending”?
“anon 12:50 no he can’t but he will ask you if you know if CP was never, ever, ever related to possible birth injury. Since you can’t prove it was never, then John the slime Edwards was justified.”
I’m looking forward to meeting even one of you who has read the medical records in the Edwards’ cases and can definitively say that malpractice did not occur. Novel concept, seeing the evidence, I know.
Until then, well, forgive me if I don’t put any stock in the opinions of people who have not seen literally any evidence. Do you treat all your patients that way? I bet your overhead is low.
Kind of like the novel concept of the ACOG peer-reviewed published findings that there the vast majority of CP is not related to birth injuries and with respect to the one remaining subset of CP (comprising a fairly small percentage of all CP) the datais still being gathered. What your statement show is a complete lack of understanding of medicine/science and the scientific method. But then again your aren’t seeking the truth now are you.
Anonymous 8:30 am (aka Mr. I got nothing):
Have you found a single case controlled study yet? If so, please post the reference for it. I did not expect that you would find one because none exist. While you are at it (since it is up to the plaintiff to prove their case – remember that), please cite for us here the specific findings that differentiate nascent vs. iatrogenically induced CP. Heck, if you can, name one single factor that allows for this differentiation. This is clinical causation junk science at its best. No honest provider should be subject to it in the med-mal world and no third party defendant should be subject to it in the PI world.
And yet, experts, presumably far more qualified than you, and juries, who, if you can imagine this, heard the evidence, disagreed with you.
It’s weird how sometimes the actual facts of the case matter.
Thanks for citing the ACOG study, which very clearly did not state that malpractice could not cause CP.
If you’re such a believer that it was junk science, why don’t you call the courts and get a copy of those transcripts and records and see for yourself? It’s just that easy.
Actually what it stated was that the vast majority of CP cases were not associated with perinatal events. But why don’t you read whatever you want to into the study since you and your brethran are going to anyways CJD.
Once again we see that folks are misinformed, loser pays has been part of our system for many years. EVERYWHERE! The only catch is the poor defendant has to simply write a letter if he thinks a case is frivolous and make an offer of judgement, say $1 and if a jury does not award a plaintiff at least $1 then he plaintiff must pay costs and attorney fees from the date of the letter. It has been in the Rules of Civil Procedure for years, see Rule 68 Offer of Judgement, the plaintiff cannot maek one ony the defendant. So tell the truth, if you are willing to call a case frivolous, you can get the loser pays you desire so much but most are not willing to make that offer for some reason. OR the insurance defense lawyers do not tell their clients about the rule so they cn bill more…
Every state bar publishes lists of lawyers that are disciplined, they even have to show up in open court to be reprimanded in public. There is not a doctor organization out there that publishes when a doctor has negligently injured someone or killed someone. A patient cannot find out if the doctor has been disciplined or had his license taken away in another state, so much for your ethics!
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