Wrong Surgery Performed On Woman As Team Watches

Local 6 ^ | November 4, 2004

[elizabetty]

Quick, call John Edwards!

[thoughtomator]

An accidental liposuction would be understandable...

[MaryFromMichigan]

Boobs.

[Cobra64]

Canadian hospital? My Dad had some bad experiences when he an my Mom travelled in CAnada. Their medical care is third world. Furthermore, they triple charged medi-scare. Of course medi-scare, upon advisment of the scam, simply paid ALL the bills. USA taxpayers got F'd again.

[Stoat]

Although I agree with your sentiments about Canadian healthcare, this particular medical center appears to be in the great State of Florida

Welcome To Halifax Medical Center

[DTogo]

Ya beat me to it!

Two words for this woman: Cha-ching!

[Cobra64]

I stand corrected. My sincere apologies.

[Stoat]

No reason to apologize...I originally thought it was in Nova Scotia also :-)

[GeronL]

The patient was told to draw the arrows???

[taxesareforever]

Quick, call John Edwards!

He is unavailable due to post election traumatic withdrawals.

[piasa]

True- but as a point of trivia we have so many Canadians down here that there really are Canadian health care clinics in Florida. Now THAT's socialized health care.

[piasa]

Having the patient do it is probably to lessen the hospital's liability.

Though ignoring the marks sort of negates that benefit.

[mlocher]

Two words for this woman: Cha-ching!

you mean two words for the woman's lawyers

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

Which one of the morons around here who blindly and ignorantly repeats the tort-reform mantra is going to defend what this Doctor did?

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

How much should he pay? In a fair world, where the Doctor would just step forward and admit he was wrong and offer to pay, he should only have to pay (a) enough to cover all the costs of fixing the damage, (b) a fair amount for the emotional distress it caused her, the pain involved, and (c) some money to cover any economic losses she suffered such as lost wages, etc.

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

Of course she will be asking for a lot more. She is forced to because the Doctor will never just admit he screwed up, and his insurance company's hack of a defense lawyer will do everything possible to defend him (or the doctor will sue for malpractice). That includes hiring a bunch of lieing scumbag expert witness whores who will say anything for money. So the woman will have to hire her own lawyer, and since we don't have a loser-pays system, she will have to ask for way more in order to pay her lawyer, and pay all her costs and her own experts. Since she's probably poor or working class, she'd never be able to pay for a lawyer by the hour, and thus the doctor, with his multi-billion dollar insurance company, can easily spend her into the dirt.

I'm from a very poor family. I'm the first in my family to go to college, the first to go to graduate school (law school), and I'm a lifelong Republican. I come from the "we hate lawyers" mentality that so many conservatives suffer from, and let me tell you from the inside looking out - tort reform and medical malpractice reform is one of the biggest scams in history. It's about big insurance companies making higher profits, and both the doctors get screwed as well as injured people.

[merry10]

Actually, my friend who had a masectomy wrote something in a sharpie on the breast to be removed. Not to tell the doctor which breast, but to lend some humor to the situation.