Comments on: And you wonder why doctors practice defensive medicine http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/05/and-you-wonder-why-doctors-practice.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/05/and-you-wonder-why-doctors-practice.html#comment-85919 Anonymous Sat, 31 May 2008 12:23:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/05/and-you-wonder-why-doctors-practice-defensive-medicine.html#comment-85919 There isn't enough information about the clinical circumstances to even begin to form an opinion about whether this verdict is a justification for defensive medicine or whether the guy was truly negligient by non-defensive ordinary state of the art standards.<br/><br/>The comment quoted is from an anonymous blogger, not the jury, not the attorneys, not the judge.<br/><br/>We already know that some of the bean brains strolling around think that we are supposed to rule out every possible diagnosis, but that is not the law and juries generally understand that by the time they get around to rendering a verdict, which is why docs win most jury verdicts and more than one person has to sit on juries in order to dilute out those bean brains. There isn’t enough information about the clinical circumstances to even begin to form an opinion about whether this verdict is a justification for defensive medicine or whether the guy was truly negligient by non-defensive ordinary state of the art standards.

The comment quoted is from an anonymous blogger, not the jury, not the attorneys, not the judge.

We already know that some of the bean brains strolling around think that we are supposed to rule out every possible diagnosis, but that is not the law and juries generally understand that by the time they get around to rendering a verdict, which is why docs win most jury verdicts and more than one person has to sit on juries in order to dilute out those bean brains.

]]> By: IVF-MDhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/05/and-you-wonder-why-doctors-practice.html#comment-85878 IVF-MD Thu, 29 May 2008 15:45:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/05/and-you-wonder-why-doctors-practice-defensive-medicine.html#comment-85878 Very cute. Those comments in the original article almost appear to be a series of planted testimonials for the attorney who won the case. But I guess they are not, or else the 1-800 number would have been included. :) Very cute. Those comments in the original article almost appear to be a series of planted testimonials for the attorney who won the case. But I guess they are not, or else the 1-800 number would have been included. :)

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