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Suing your doctor

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 Anonymous  

    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. 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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