Suing your doctor

August 20, 2007

Doctors take it personally, despite what lawyers claim:

They aren’t suing doctors and small business owners or citizens unfortunate enough to have had an auto accident. They’re suing insurance companies. But, I can assure you, it isn’t the insurance company that sits in a court of law accused of malfeasance.



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1 Anonymous August 20, 2007 at 4:25 pm

When has a lawyer ever claimed that physicians don’t take it personally?

Every lawyer knows they’re suing the individual and they will take it personally. Nor does every case accuse a physician of malfeasance. Or any case for that matter.

Oddly though, doctors take the lawyers’ actions more personally than the person who actually is filing suit.

2 Supremacy Claus August 21, 2007 at 6:27 pm

My plaintiff lawyer sure took it personally when I counter-sued. He freaked. He left the state, and medmal entirely. I put this imprudent tort-feasor through the mill for two years, for about $10K, a bargain, until his biased lawyer pal on bench saved his rear end.

For five years after, lawyers at depositions would greet me with, “I can’t believe you sued a lawyer.”

I have a policy. I will always sue a lawyer if sued. If I lose, it will be my defense attorney. I announce this policy right after the first hand shake with the defense attorney. In a letter to plaintiff attorney, if I win, I take a blood oath. I will sue the plaintiff and the plaintiff lawyer. Always.

The vast majority of medmal claims are weak. Every doc has an affirmative duty to defend clinical care. Put away $10K. Then spend it on suing the land pirates seeking to plunder clinical care. To deter.

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