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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 12:39 PM Original message |
Medical Tort Liability: Red Herring |
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flpoljunkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
1. Doctors are also generally lousy at weeding out the incompetents among them. |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 03:12 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. They know who the incompetents are, thy just won't "oust" them or report them. |
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Princess Turandot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 10:57 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. That's not universally true.. |
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Thrill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
2. Obama made that clear |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
3. And, as pointed out in the current New Yorker, Texas quacks have no |
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Bread and Circus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 01:25 PM Response to Original message |
4. I think you underestimate the cost to the system of practicing defensive medicine. |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 01:41 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. According to the CBO, Those Practices Wouldn't Change Much |
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Bread and Circus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 02:55 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Well, those guys aren't doctors and don't work with doctors on a day to day basis... |
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ellacott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 03:10 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Also certain specialties are hard hit with the cost of malpractice insurance |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 03:13 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. To me, surgery "on the wrong body part" is malpractice. |
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ellacott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 03:22 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. No question |
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Princess Turandot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
11. It's not a red herring in terms of certain medical practices... |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 06:26 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Good Point |
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