Comments on: Unintended consequences of a frivolous lawsuit http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/unintended-consequences-of-frivolous.html medical blog Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:54:20 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/unintended-consequences-of-frivolous.html/comment-page-1#comment-84775 Anonymous Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:42:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/04/unintended-consequences-of-a-frivolous-lawsuit.html#comment-84775 "These things matter and lawyers are dreaming if they think they don't.<br/><br/># posted by Anonymous : 2:41 PM"<br/><br/>So our physicians are not concerned with facts and alter their actions based on urban legends? <br/><br/>And they criticize the autism-vaccine advocates? “These things matter and lawyers are dreaming if they think they don’t.

# posted by Anonymous : 2:41 PM”

So our physicians are not concerned with facts and alter their actions based on urban legends?

And they criticize the autism-vaccine advocates?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/unintended-consequences-of-frivolous.html/comment-page-1#comment-84766 Anonymous Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:18:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/04/unintended-consequences-of-a-frivolous-lawsuit.html#comment-84766 I don't know if it's so much that physicians buy into these fabrications as that the attorneys and insurance groups that run health care now love it. To them, it's "justification" for all manner of stupidity that serves only to rob doctors of free will and patients of good care. I don’t know if it’s so much that physicians buy into these fabrications as that the attorneys and insurance groups that run health care now love it. To them, it’s “justification” for all manner of stupidity that serves only to rob doctors of free will and patients of good care.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/unintended-consequences-of-frivolous.html/comment-page-1#comment-84758 Anonymous Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:41:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/04/unintended-consequences-of-a-frivolous-lawsuit.html#comment-84758 The facts don't matter. What matters is the tale itself. Does anyone think that a Physician hearing this will NOT consider preventive tactics as the article described? It is its own reality as are Urban Legends. These things matter and lawyers are dreaming if they think they don't. The facts don’t matter. What matters is the tale itself. Does anyone think that a Physician hearing this will NOT consider preventive tactics as the article described? It is its own reality as are Urban Legends. These things matter and lawyers are dreaming if they think they don’t.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/unintended-consequences-of-frivolous.html/comment-page-1#comment-84754 Anonymous Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:02:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/04/unintended-consequences-of-a-frivolous-lawsuit.html#comment-84754 Kevin is lobbying. In lobbying, facts are secondary to staying "on message." Kevin is lobbying. In lobbying, facts are secondary to staying “on message.”

]]> By: SarahW http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/unintended-consequences-of-frivolous.html/comment-page-1#comment-84751 SarahW Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:10:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/04/unintended-consequences-of-a-frivolous-lawsuit.html#comment-84751 I tire of these apocryphal tales, they shed no light on anything since the assumptions are faulty and unreliable without access to the actual allegations or the facts of the case. I tire of these apocryphal tales, they shed no light on anything since the assumptions are faulty and unreliable without access to the actual allegations or the facts of the case.

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