Yeah because we have free healthcare means we don't have medical professionals who know what they're doing.
Shut up about free/not free healthcare, this isn't helping the issue that he's in right now.
o rly? You don't think malpractice law suits have any effect on the cost of medicine? Especially frivolous suits?
You think it's a frivolous law suit when they spent all the insurance money on trying to save the finger, now say it's not possible and needs to be cut off, and because of all the shit they did, his insurance doesn't cover it anymore?
Are you fucking nuts? Oh wait, I forgot, this is TW. No common sense.
A frivolous law suit would be like someone taking all their medication at once and then suing because they got even more sick.
This is so depressing. I mean when construction companies fuck up on something and are caught they usually have to pony up and re-do the job out-of-pocket without the client paying anything more. How is it doctors can get away with fucking up and misdiagnosing something and still have the gaul to stick you with the bill for their mistake?
Its amazing the people that will shit on free healthcare isn't it.
link, does not matter. People think otherwise and that the doctor should have known and will sue.
The case would be dismissed. But not before a lot of money is spent in the court room, preparing a case, reviewing patient care documentation, interviewing and other lawyer type stuff.
This is one reason we desperately need tort reform in this country.
link, does not matter. People think otherwise and that the doctor should have known and will sue.
The case would be dismissed. But not before a lot of money is spent in the court room, preparing a case, reviewing patient care documentation, interviewing and other lawyer type stuff.
This is one reason we desperately need tort reform in this country.
As much as my construction analogy does hold, you can't compare it as much as medical professionals have to be held to a higher standard simply on what they do. If any white-collar comes in a little hung over and he loses his concentration for a second what could happen? Misplaces decimal, a small botch on a photoshop project, ultimately things that could be fixed in a reasonable fashion.
Now if a surgeon did the same thing... Well he slips and he could do anything from cutting a nerve and lose all use of something to trauma to flat out having a patient die on the operating table. What happened with hfingers shouldn't have happened. A doctor should have a limit to how much antibiotic you need to pump into something that's not life-threatening (like a finger) before a simply logic kicks in and you should just amputate it. Or hell, he should have TOLD hfingers if he wanted to amputate it without antibiotics and say they may not have been a way to save it. Did his doctor even offer that or did he just go the whole antibiotic "We have to save the finger at all costs" route?
The real problem is hospitals and health care are not run by doctors anymore, they are run by businessmen. And you can't apply business principles to saving lifes and healing injuries. At that point, life is now a number and you can easily put a value in terms of dollars on it. Doctors need to run hospitals again and let the suits take a backseat or consultant position in how to manage.
And if you don't believe that, I go back to circumcision. It's unnecessary and yet hospitals will still try to get people to sign up to have it done, even to the point insurance will cover the COST of it. And why is that? Because the hospitals can sell the foreskins to cosmetics companies for money. Coercing people into unnecessary surgery simply to pad their pockets.