Posted on 09/13/2004 12:01:33 PM PDT by JosephACamerieri
Medical malpractice is number cause of death in America NOT car accidents, or heart disease, or slips and falls, this is well known published stat; its is I repeat again medical malpractice. When doctors in hospitals are negligent IT IS because they have TOO MANY PATIENTS in order to make more bucks in order to pay their malpractice insurance WELL HERE IS THE ULTIMATE RESOLUTION or at least lets start here first; NOW they want to puts lawsuit caps on the victims of these professional murderers who have the American Medical Association, biggest scam in the world, supporting this and ignorant insurance companies too.
We need to find out which doctors are in it for the money and which ones are in for it for the well-being & health of a human being. We have to eliminate those who are in for its money and write a law to screen for this in medical schools.
First quickly thing to do is: We The people will promote a law to sponsor putting caps, or limits on amount of patients a medical doctor is allowed to have per year or per month in hospital or office visit. Side effect of this law will control one of the known issues of office waiting times.
This will drop the amount of lawsuits filed because more doctors will give more time to critical patient will have less mistakes and more quality care. Medical caps on doctors is a great resolution to medical malpractice lawsuits! NOT CAPS ON amount of lawsuits damages which is after the fact resolution. We are in prevention mode which is the key here. Lets prevent negligence & materialism by doctors by making a law to put limits on doctors. This will undoubtedly will drop lawsuit filing by almost 35% causing insurance rates to drop too. GREAT IDEA! Is unfair that there is always caps on the customer and not the industry! THIS WILL WORK! CAPS ON DOCTORS to patients!
I humbly disagree with your premise.
Plus, lay off the caps. Welcome to FreeRepublic.com.
In before the Zot!
There are only so many brilliant, potential physicians to go around.
If you limit the number of patients a doc can have, then you must increase the number of docs.
If you increase the number of docs, then you're more likely to get those who don't have top grades and abilities.
Like Ann Landers (or Dear Abby...I forget which) used to say:
***Remember....half your doctors graduated in the bottom half of their classes.***
Your type of post is called a "vanity" and it is frowned upon. It is better to post some type of publication that serves as a starting point and then offer your editorial comments based upon that.
So you are proposing laws to exert government control over physicians.
Where do you want to see these laws passed: Federal level? Or should "you the people" pass enact these laws at level level of each individual state?
I absolutely agree Weirdad!! The doctors who are in it for the money are the ones on the other side of this fight. Ever hear of expert witness testimony, Mr. Camerieri? The doctors you propose regulating make an average of $95 an hour on a regular office visit ($200 to $300 if they are a neurosurgeon). The doctors that are putting them out of business by giving expert witness testimony for trial lawyers make an average of $700 an hour.
One more quick note. In case you think I'm exaggerating, check out Clausen v. M/V New Clarissa where doctors were paid a whopping $149,170.05 for testifying that an oil spill killed some oysters. Somehow I don't think my overworked pediatrician is the one who is in it for the money, Mr. C
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