A pediatrician fails to order a CT scan on a child who fell down stairs. Somehow I don’t think that “luck” is a convincing argument in the courtroom.
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But it is accurate. Since everything we do is based on an estimation of the odds, luck is indeed always at play. Courtrooms don’t practice medicine and when a doc gets to the point where everything he does is dictated by jury judgment rather than medical judgement–understandable when he has been sued a few times–then he has in fact become a psychological casualty and is occupationally impaired. If he cannot get past that and return to proper medical practice, then it is time to hang it up.
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