Comments on: Sore loser

By: RJS

RJS — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 01:35:00 +0000

Mulvey was the plaintiff’s lawyer in the trial of Flea.

Just a random anecdote.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:11:00 +0000

Yeah, those shysters give the other 0.001% a bad name

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:13:00 +0000

For shysters (not reponsible, ethical attorneys) all deaths are “malpractice.” And all losses in court are “injustice.”

Ed Sodaro MD

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:45:00 +0000

Which is why the plaintiff’s bar will argue against a single-payer system even moreso than physicians. It’ll never happen in this country.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:43:00 +0000

Reading the original article she was a 79 year old healthy active person who was found to have fluid in the lungs i.e. heart failure. Doesn’t sound so healthy to me. At least with the new single party payer system we won’t have to worry about malpractice cases like these because she wouln’t have gotten the cardiac cath because we won’t be doing heart surgery on anyone older than (pick your number) in the first place.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:45:00 +0000

so Eric, are you saying it was a failure only because plaintiff didn’t win?

Your increased time argument doesn’t wash either because if plaintiff had taken the cue from the panel they would drop the claim saving everyones time.

By: Eric Turkewitz

Eric Turkewitz — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:08:00 +0000

She's right. In NY and in many other states the panels have been dumped as a failure. There are no witnesses at the panels, making it impossible for the "jurors" to decide disputed issues of fact.

And because of a lack of interest by doctors in participating, it adds years to litigation.

I wrote about this very subject two weeks ago:

Why Medical Malpractice Panels Fail