DISQUS

Braden · 12 months ago

I've been saying it to anyone who'll listen:

Save medicine: banish all lawyers.

OHN · 12 months ago

It drives me crazy that people don't take responsibility for their own health. The stupid blame game has to stop or we will lose more physicians. Our FMD left his practice and so did my old OB--malpractice costs killed all the desire they had left.

ArkieRN · 12 months ago

Ok. I'll tell my idiot story (even though I was the idiot). I was diagnosed with late stage cervical CA in 2006. Previously, I had been receiving Depo-Provera shots to help with my cycle. My doctor recommended a pap and like an idiot I refused and kept putting it off. I never even considered suing. It was my own stupidity that I didn't have the test.

Alexy · 12 months ago

Example nº 1
a 45 years old diabetic patient without painchest with non st changes in his EKg but extrasistoles,

Dr Me: in your last EKG we see more than 60 extrasistoles per min, we suspect a heart attack we need to admit you to do some test and give you medication.

Some patient: I just feel fine, i dont need medication i dont need test i just want to go home

Dr Me: It could be dangerous you could die if you have a heart attack, extrasistoles ectopic beats of the heart, could be indicators of heart attack.

Someptient: i wanna go to my house, im not gonna discuss with ya so i dont care.

14 hours later this guy was admited with a FV, we code him and get him back, the most amazing thing is that after all this, he refused to stay at hospital.

Example nº 2
A 5 year old boy with 20 min long seizures, was admitted Diazepam EV not working then epamin EV seizures were off, after all this;

patientboy: daddy im seeing ghosts, im scared.

Dad: im gonna take him to a wizard he must be possesed

Dr me: certain patient that experience seizures see alutinations, we need to admit him for MRI and observacion.

Dad: No

Dr Me: we need to know the cause of the seizure, seizure that last more than 30 min are usually dangerous.

Dad: im gonna take my son

Dr me: can we at least do the MRI?

Dad: no you cant.

Dr me: Sr your son cant go out of the hospital until doing MRI

Dad: if i can get my son out of here, i will bring a chirinchera (guajiran truck, some kind of truck) full of my partners (guajiros) to shot you all if you dont give me my son.

these case was venezuelans indians, so thats explain why they believe in wizards, still they can enjoy of our health system and us doctors of their stupidity and ignorance.


well at least in venezuela suing is not a tradition like in USA, you can find those two examples almost unbelievable but it happened, Two great examples and thats why i said some patients are morons, i dont even imagine being sued for this if anything goes bad, but when things goes wrong they came with the idea of blaming the doctor, although it didnt happen in this two cases, i didnt know what happened with those two patients, i never see them again.

albatross · 12 months ago

How much of this kind of crazy verdict is jurors actually expressing an opinion on the professional judgment of doctors, and how much is just another form of cost-shifting? The jurors see that something really awful happened to a person they can see and sympathize with, and a distant insurance company can be made to give him money to make it better.

This has awful systemic effects (as does other cost-shifting in medicine), but I think it's a more plausible explanation for this kind of verdict than the notion that the jurors really had an opinion on whether the doctor made a good decision.