Comments on: Curbsided http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/06/curbsided.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/06/curbsided.html#comment-86159 Anonymous Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:26:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/06/curbsided.html#comment-86159 And when your doctor is wrong about your condition, you'll get to sue them BOTH. And when your doctor is wrong about your condition, you’ll get to sue them BOTH.

]]> By: Jessica Dembohttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/06/curbsided.html#comment-86157 Jessica Dembo Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:17:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/06/curbsided.html#comment-86157 This has to be a tough situation for anyone in the medical field. I have a good friend that is also an ER doctor and if I don't get a response I like from my doctor I will ask him for his advice. More often then not he agrees with my personal doctor which makes me feel better. This has to be a tough situation for anyone in the medical field. I have a good friend that is also an ER doctor and if I don’t get a response I like from my doctor I will ask him for his advice. More often then not he agrees with my personal doctor which makes me feel better.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/06/curbsided.html#comment-86132 Anonymous Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:32:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/06/curbsided.html#comment-86132 "So I had to decide: what should I tell her? I could just abdicate all responsibility and tell her to get in to the ER. Safer, simpler, and the "textbook" answer."<br/><br/>"Abdicate all responsibiity?" WHAT friggin' responsibilty does a doctor have to a casual aquiantance who's fishing for free advice about a potentially serious condition and who puts you at risk for malpractice exposure, at NO personal cost to herself whatsoever? “So I had to decide: what should I tell her? I could just abdicate all responsibility and tell her to get in to the ER. Safer, simpler, and the “textbook” answer.”

“Abdicate all responsibiity?” WHAT friggin’ responsibilty does a doctor have to a casual aquiantance who’s fishing for free advice about a potentially serious condition and who puts you at risk for malpractice exposure, at NO personal cost to herself whatsoever?

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