Posted on 02/14/2005 2:56:44 PM PST by Soliton
The only way this can be confirmed is if a patient actually has a change of heart and comes forward as Covey has.
Why isn't is "malpractice" under any conditions?
It would be unusual for an internist to perform a surgical procedure, although it's certainly not impossible that he did. But I'm not sure I see the point. Has anyone come forward claiming that Dean performed an abortion on them? He's already pro-choice. What exactly does all this rumor and conjecture accomplish?
The point is that there is a non-surgical procedure that would fall under an internists role in an abortion clinic.
I wouldn't doubt it. The Dems would just love that.
Liberal doublespeak. Having had GYN procedures while hospitalized, I can tell you that half the docs running around in teaching hospitals are residents. So what's the "it" she is talking about?
During the Primaries, some freeper accessed Judy Dean's web site and discovered that the nice liberal doctor lady does not accept Medicare or Medicaid payments. Maybe she's changed that by now.
He has no "moral problem" with abortion? That tells you all you need to know, regardless of whether or not he ever actually performed them!
Not this time. She's taking about pelvic exams.
Internal medicine residents are not trained to do surgical procedure (that's for the surgical and OG/GYN residents) but they may have watched the procedures and taught post-op care.
I know the whole article is long, but if you read it you will see that we are not talking about a surgical, but a medical procedure called Intruterine Instillation.
I don't know if the Deans did or did not do abortions.
However I don't find anything they've said as inconsistent with typical training given an Internist. Most internists don't go to PP to get extra GYN training but I can believe their explanantion that they did go to PP to get extra experience without resorting to insisting they performed abortions.
In the hospital most GYN procedures are done by GYN residents. Very few Gyn procedures are done by internal medicine residents. During my internship in Internal Medicine while on the wards I think I did 2 pelvic exams.
AS to others who discuss malpractice and procedures done by non-medical people, MD's are held to a higher standard. An outcome that wouldn't be malpractice if done by a lay person may well be malpractice if done by a physician. (At least that's my understanding of Good Samaritan Laws...lay folks stopping and helping at the scene of an accident can't be sued, MD's can. While I'm not a lawyer I wouldn't be surprised to find the same double standard in place for the abortion question.)
The only medical profession where doctors get paid in teenage girl's piggy bank cash.
Dean should have admitted performing abortions last year... He would have been a shoe in for the Democratic nomination for President
I beleive we will see the deano's medical procedure records right after john f----ing kerry signs form 180 to release his service records
Bump for great freeping.
How long before the first "Bill Clinton was an Internist too" jokes?
Here's a Dean link on abortion and his views:
http://www.issues2000.org/2004/Howard_Dean_Abortion.htm
If Kerry signs his 180, I'd say there was a good chance of Dean releasing his case files. In that case, watch the swine levitate.
Why is abortion so controversial anyway. I thought Abortion was a right. A right much like freedom of speech. You can't argue with a right, especially the right to choose. Choice is as American as apple pie.
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