Will girl's transplant hurt the system?

Politico ^ | 06/13/2013 | Brett Norman

[okie01]

The rules about who gets transplants should be *guidelines,* not hard and fast rules that don’t take individual circumstances into account.

You're correct, of course. But there is a reason for "hard and fast rules" -- they are less subject to litigation.

A doctor or administrator who practices discretion in life and death matters such as these is leaving himself wide open to a legal challenge that he committed a "mistake". In a "judgment call", the attorney's judgment is equal to the professional's judgment -- under the law.

It's the same reason many schools practice "zero tolerance". Once they make a judgment call, little Johnny's parents are going to bring suit.

The substitution of "hard and fast rules" for what should be guidelines is the price of a litigious society.

[CodeToad]

“speak. However she probably should have been in that line all along and they simply righted a wrong by allowing her to jump in where she probably would have been all along. “

That’s my exact point. She was pushed out of line and had to fight to get back in it. This is the type of crap the government has already been doing with healthcare. Imagine the death and misery that will follow ObamaDeathcare.