Doctors are idiots

[Imran Siddiqui]

Of course doctors are idiots... but so are everyone else .

On a more serious note, I wonder if the malpractice insurance and bad doctors isn't a chicken and the egg problem. Wouldn't malpractice insurance originally rise because of bad doctors (and some doctors have really made some BAAAD messes that everyone that has the insurance has to pay for eventually)?

[TCO]

Originally posted by Ted Striker



bahhhhh

Football players have to have quick recovery times, because they have to make their living that way. You don't.

So no need to go to a "cutter."

Dudefish!!!

I been sitting here hemming and hawing for years and months and stuff. Now it is time to make a rash decision. That's how it works.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Of course doctors are idiots... but so are everyone else .

On a more serious note, I wonder if the malpractice insurance and bad doctors isn't a chicken and the egg problem. Wouldn't malpractice insurance originally rise because of bad doctors (and some doctors have really made some BAAAD messes that everyone that has the insurance has to pay for eventually)?

How does having a doctor who has a long track record and no lawsuits or threats of lawsuits having to pay 25% of their gross for malpractice insurance benefit anyone other than the insurance company? Answer, it doesn't. Its high time we had a group of doctors reform the legal system.

[Imran Siddiqui]

How does having a doctor who has a long track record and no lawsuits or threats of lawsuits having to pay 25% of their gross for malpractice insurance benefit anyone other than the insurance company?

He could self-insure if he felt the costs were too high.

Sorry, but people who have scapels stuck in their backs for 25 years, have the wrong foot amputated, etc., they should get whatever money they can get (how do you put a price on a good foot?!). If that raises the insurance costs for the good doctors, then the good doctors should be more stringent with who they allow to practice.

Its high time we had a group of doctors reform the legal system.

Yes, let's protect the bad doctors.

[TCO]

I don't completely agree, imran. You see. ifyou have a health problem youn are willing to take the danger of mispractice for the value of praqctice.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Maybe some minor, foreseeable malpractice, but more than that? The high awards come from REALLY gross negligence, that hardly anyone would expect. Leaving things in people after surgery that end up causing future problems is not something people should be expected to 'take'.

[Brundlefly]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Of course doctors are idiots... but so are everyone else .

On a more serious note, I wonder if the malpractice insurance and bad doctors isn't a chicken and the egg problem. Wouldn't malpractice insurance originally rise because of bad doctors (and some doctors have really made some BAAAD messes that everyone that has the insurance has to pay for eventually)?

The actual incidence of malpractice remains flat over recent decades. There are no spikes in that graph to push insurance rates up. No, malpractice insurance has risen because an abundance of frivolous lawsuits. How bad the situation is where you live depends entirely on your state's legislation governing malpractice lawsuit monetary award caps and number of lawsuits that are allowed to go to trial. In my home state of Pennsylvania, the numbers of both of these items are very high. Doctors are fleeing the state of PA because of it.

[Brundlefly]

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