Comments on: No-shows and malpractice http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/no-shows-and-malpractice.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/no-shows-and-malpractice.html#comment-84105 Anonymous Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:40:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/03/no-shows-and-malpractice.html#comment-84105 I read the original article. This appears to be a hypothetical case for educational purposes, not one actually filed. I also carefuuly track medical liability cases around the US, and I cannot find any reference to such a case.<br/><br/>This hypothetical case would be an exceedingly hard sell for the plaintiff, even in the most corrupt American liability hellholes.<br/><br/>Ed Sodaro MD I read the original article. This appears to be a hypothetical case for educational purposes, not one actually filed. I also carefuuly track medical liability cases around the US, and I cannot find any reference to such a case.

This hypothetical case would be an exceedingly hard sell for the plaintiff, even in the most corrupt American liability hellholes.

Ed Sodaro MD

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/no-shows-and-malpractice.html#comment-84099 Anonymous Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:18:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/03/no-shows-and-malpractice.html#comment-84099 "# posted by Anonymous : 2:56 AM"<br/><br/>What are you talking about? “# posted by Anonymous : 2:56 AM”

What are you talking about?

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/no-shows-and-malpractice.html#comment-84095 Anonymous Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:56:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/03/no-shows-and-malpractice.html#comment-84095 >>Or are facts no longer necessary to reach a conclusion?<br/><br/>Never stopped you has it CJD? >>Or are facts no longer necessary to reach a conclusion?

Never stopped you has it CJD?

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/no-shows-and-malpractice.html#comment-84084 Anonymous Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:23:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/03/no-shows-and-malpractice.html#comment-84084 There wasn't a single documented case mentioned in that article of any patient, anywhere, filing a lawsuit on these grounds. It was entirely a risk management hypothesis -- "this could happen if you don't do x, y, z". The people you should be aiming your frustration at are your own lawyers -- they're the ones using scare tactics to make you do their bidding. <br/><br/>If a patient ever WOULD sue you on these grounds, s/he is clearly an idiot who deserves both to lose and to be forced to compensate you for all legal costs and time. However, there is no evidence here that any such suits have happened. There wasn’t a single documented case mentioned in that article of any patient, anywhere, filing a lawsuit on these grounds. It was entirely a risk management hypothesis — “this could happen if you don’t do x, y, z”. The people you should be aiming your frustration at are your own lawyers — they’re the ones using scare tactics to make you do their bidding.

If a patient ever WOULD sue you on these grounds, s/he is clearly an idiot who deserves both to lose and to be forced to compensate you for all legal costs and time. However, there is no evidence here that any such suits have happened.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/no-shows-and-malpractice.html#comment-84082 Anonymous Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:16:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/03/no-shows-and-malpractice.html#comment-84082 Can any of you actually cite a successful case on this theory? One that you've read the evidence in? <br/><br/>Or are facts no longer necessary to reach a conclusion? Can any of you actually cite a successful case on this theory? One that you’ve read the evidence in?

Or are facts no longer necessary to reach a conclusion?

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/no-shows-and-malpractice.html#comment-84076 Anonymous Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:58:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/03/no-shows-and-malpractice.html#comment-84076 Well, all the talk about freedom is true. Until something goes wrong. Then it's the doctor's fault.<br/><br/>Jackpot. Well, all the talk about freedom is true. Until something goes wrong. Then it’s the doctor’s fault.

Jackpot.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/no-shows-and-malpractice.html#comment-84072 Anonymous Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:08:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/03/no-shows-and-malpractice.html#comment-84072 Last time I checked patients are still free to see another doctor, miss an appointment, cancel an appointment, or pass from this world without asking their doctor's permission. More recently, Medicare and other HMO's are herding patients thousands at a time away from their existing doctors without informing them. It is impossible to feel responsible for an act of free will or government-supported HMO coercion, especially when some doctors must see 50 to 100 patients per day to pay the bills. Last time I checked patients are still free to see another doctor, miss an appointment, cancel an appointment, or pass from this world without asking their doctor’s permission. More recently, Medicare and other HMO’s are herding patients thousands at a time away from their existing doctors without informing them. It is impossible to feel responsible for an act of free will or government-supported HMO coercion, especially when some doctors must see 50 to 100 patients per day to pay the bills.

]]> By: Doc99http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/no-shows-and-malpractice.html#comment-84068 Doc99 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:21:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/03/no-shows-and-malpractice.html#comment-84068 Free will and personal empowerment apparently stops at the doctors' doorsteps. Hold on, I've got Orwell on the other line. Free will and personal empowerment apparently stops at the doctors’ doorsteps. Hold on, I’ve got Orwell on the other line.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/no-shows-and-malpractice.html#comment-84062 Anonymous Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:45:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/03/no-shows-and-malpractice.html#comment-84062 The tort bar is nothing if not creative about finding new theories of negligence to keep the jackpots rolling. Soom it will be failure to give the patient a ride to the office. The tort bar is nothing if not creative about finding new theories of negligence to keep the jackpots rolling. Soom it will be failure to give the patient a ride to the office.

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