I was one of the anonymous — and NOT a “lawer”. I was a patient who paid attention, asked questions, and got brutally reamed by clinic risk management for doing so (by “reamed” I mean sent letter after letter telling me that I was dirt, unworthy of health care, and they didn’t have to explain why). Yet I still receive frequent charity solicitations from their fundraising people, filled with lovely pictures of caring doctors gently caressing pediatric cancer patients or listening intently as some photogenic elderly person describes her malady. Such BS.

You guys “flame” patients here every day, blaming the entire population for whatever displeases you. Just once I’d like to see you honestly examine the hypocrisy of your own profession, and then maybe we can all work together to find solutions where you get the respect you deserve and we get the care and communication we need.

Thanks for nothing, Dr. Sam.

No, in medicine it means turning over the reins to risk management attorneys…who, ironically, are even less principled than the malpractice attorneys.

Every other industry has federal and state consumer oversight… except lawyers. And I don’t mean the sick joke of the wolf guarding the henhouse bar associations.

No, in medicine it apparently means whining incessantly rather than actually trying to improve the quality of your services or making sure your colleagues are competent.