Comments on: Reasons not to become a doctor http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/05/reasons-not-to-become-doctor.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:59:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/05/reasons-not-to-become-doctor.html/comment-page-1#comment-85469 Anonymous Wed, 07 May 2008 04:53:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/05/reasons-not-to-become-a-doctor.html#comment-85469 And Korean drycleaners get hit with $52 million dollar lawsuits. And Korean drycleaners get hit with $52 million dollar lawsuits.

]]> By: Supremacy Claus http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/05/reasons-not-to-become-doctor.html/comment-page-1#comment-85465 Supremacy Claus Wed, 07 May 2008 02:20:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/05/reasons-not-to-become-a-doctor.html#comment-85465 Doctors are among the most privileged of defendants. Let's say a group practice makes $5 million a year. If they have 4 lawsuits ongoing, they are all upset.<br/><br/>Let's say a welding business makes $5 million a year. It will have 400 lawsuits ongoing every day, forever. Each is as weak and frivolous as those against the doctors. The leaders of this welding business get as preoccupied as the doctors, when they should be preoccupied by welding.<br/><br/>Walmart has 10,000 lawsuits Everyday. What satellite based inventory system manages that quantity. <br/><br/>The public has valued both businesses the same, by their income. So, torts deters business formation, and interferes with development in all productive sectors, far worse in most businesses than in medicine. Doctors are among the most privileged of defendants. Let’s say a group practice makes $5 million a year. If they have 4 lawsuits ongoing, they are all upset.

Let’s say a welding business makes $5 million a year. It will have 400 lawsuits ongoing every day, forever. Each is as weak and frivolous as those against the doctors. The leaders of this welding business get as preoccupied as the doctors, when they should be preoccupied by welding.

Walmart has 10,000 lawsuits Everyday. What satellite based inventory system manages that quantity.

The public has valued both businesses the same, by their income. So, torts deters business formation, and interferes with development in all productive sectors, far worse in most businesses than in medicine.

]]> By: SarahW http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/05/reasons-not-to-become-doctor.html/comment-page-1#comment-85447 SarahW Tue, 06 May 2008 17:06:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/05/reasons-not-to-become-a-doctor.html#comment-85447 Could you please, for once and for all, finally comprehend the difference between a <i>frivolous</i>case and a case where the plaintiff does not win a verdict? I see the two confllated here all the time.<br/>Plaintiffs who do not prevail may have ample rational basis for bringing the claim to be tried. Could you please, for once and for all, finally comprehend the difference between a frivolouscase and a case where the plaintiff does not win a verdict? I see the two confllated here all the time.
Plaintiffs who do not prevail may have ample rational basis for bringing the claim to be tried.

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