04-29-2003, 01:05 PM | #1 |
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Widow Maggie Smith and her two adult children won $1.2 million late in 2002 (reduced from an August jury award of $3.5 million) in their wrongful death lawsuit against Dr. Franklin Price, having convinced a jury that Price did not do enough to help the late Lawrence Smith avoid his fatal heart attack. Mr. Smith, of University Heights, Ohio, was 54, overweight, a long-time smoker who ate a poor diet, got little exercise, had diabetes and high cholesterol, and admitted to being stressed at work; Dr. Price said he gave Smith repeated admonitions about his bad habits, but apparently not enough of them. [Cleveland Scene, 2-12-03; Plain Dealer, 8-20-02]
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04-29-2003, 01:31 PM | #2 |
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And people wonder why doctors are calling it quits. You think health care is bad now..wait till the number of doctors drops a few percent points when they get fed up with $200,000 and $300,000 malpractice insurance costs. Makesme wonder if professional juries might be better.....after all a doctor should be judged by someone competent in the field....Oh and is there ANYONE who can claim they don't know that smoking and being obese isn't bad for them?
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It's too bad that good doctors are having to suffer the high costs because of those bad doctors. Perhaps if stronger restrictions and rules were put into place to remove those bad doctors from being able to continue practicing, the good ones would not have to pay the rediculously high premiums. I feel your pain, my car insurance just went up 25%. Not because of anything I did, but because of all the insurance fraud in NY, the health care costs going up, and the insurance companies being greedy.
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04-29-2003, 01:37 PM | #4 |
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Where the hell is personel responsibility? Does every one just sit back and allow the nanny state to take care of anything?
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How come no one bitches about the numerous medmal suits where plaintiffs are goaded into settling for $5 or $10K for the death of a loved one that was actually the doctor's fault or where the doctor wins outright. [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img] Oh, I know why no one bitches about that: those plaintiffs either have signed gag agreements or simply have no voice. While one decision may be bad, let's not hang the whole system out to dry. In any system the law of averages rears its ugly head from time to time, showing us bad results. That does not mean the whole system is defunct. [ 04-29-2003, 02:19 PM: Message edited by: Timber Loftis ] |
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04-29-2003, 03:21 PM | #6 |
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I'll grant that when the doc does something wrong he should be nailed. But more than a settlement , he should be defrocked. If the doc had left his tool in the guy, or had given the wrong medicine that's one thing. Remember medicine is an art, not a science. The doc shouldn't get two chances to kill someone. (By the way I feel the same for lawyers too). The problem is the oversight committee won't can the bad docs.
But come on in this case... a college prof., no less, had to know being fat, smoking and rotten life style was going to kill him. This information has been available for the last 30-40 years. This was just going for the deep pockets.
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04-29-2003, 03:39 PM | #7 |
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Although you make some good points Timber you forget one universal truth. Doctors are human! Cut down enough on health care and a specialist won´t have time to attend to a patient. Now the malpractice lawsuits in AMerica is IMO beyond ridiculous. If the result is not the expected it is malpractice. Not that this was the case in this particular story. But somewhere a line has to be drawn or MagiK´s predictions will come through. Of course there are doctors who are in the profession for money, but MOST, and I do believe this is a very high percentage, are doctors to make a difference. It´s very hard to keep your motivation with lawsuits on every bad result.
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now, that's just have given me a very evil intention of making fast money. doctors beware! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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04-30-2003, 09:49 AM | #9 |
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Again I ask, was the doctor tried by a jury of his peers? or was he tried by the peers of a deceased obese smokers peers? See why I think that perhaps professional Jurries might be an answer...I think they would be less likely to make the ridiculous award and more likely to crack down on the truely incompetant and guilty.
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also, anyone know what "Disable Graemlins in this post." checkbox does?
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