Michael Lynch: “Malpractice attorneys say patients need the ability to sue for damages and to be protected from negligence. As in all professions, errors are made; as physicians, we recognize our fallibility and go to great efforts through quality assurance, case reviews and other measures to learn from mistakes and to avoid future errors. However, the extraordinary financial gain lawyers receive from a successful lawsuit decreases their moral authority and credibility on this issue compared to the physicians who spend endless time and effort training for and then caring for their patients.”
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Dr. Lynch calmly, clearly spells out the facts in a gross miscarraige of justice at the greedy hands of the utterly corrupt trial lawyer industry.
Ed Sodaro MD
As always, the physician doesn’t mention who he’s really working for – the insurance company, and he doesn’t mention who he’s really working against – the victim of his malpractice.
But if lawyers have no moral authority because they get paid, how do physicians have any moral authority? Is the world’s highest paid profession working for free now?
World’s highest paid profession?
Average salary at Bear Stearns is 10000 a week.
Is investment banking a “profession”?
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