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Slow down. MANY of these malpractice lawsuits are legitimate.It's simply not true that ALL judges are liberals and all juries are liberals.

The root problem is this ->admiting ANY human being that breathes into medical school based on ANYTHING but MERIT is your root problem. The medical industry at LARGE refuses to address the massive incompetency that is ongoing in their profession. They refuse to take away licenses from doctors that are incompetent. It's similar to the old days with the police - where there is a wall of silence when it comes to weeding out those that have NO business in that profession.

SO till they clean house, I don't care how high their liability rates go. If need be, let them drive out the incompetent ones through lawsuits. The good doctors don't have lawsuits and their liability insurance is more affordable. That is the ugly truth about the situation.

All docs are being driven out--these crisis falls on the just and the unjust alike. Hospitals, other support staff, too. When teachers are bad, you can homeschool.

Don't think "home emergency room" 's going to cut it.

re: I don't care how high their liability rates go.

I see. Should your hospital administration, driven out of business, care when you don't get the treatment you need, when you need it?

The medical industry at LARGE refuses to address the massive incompetency that is ongoing in their profession

Please define "massive incompetency".

Please relate your definition to the ability to a) Graduate from college, b) Graduate from medical school, c) Pass National Boards, d) Pass certifying exams, e) Pass license exams, f) Get staff privileges and keep them.

The good doctors don't have lawsuits and their liability insurance is more affordable.

You are a G*d D*****d LIAR and I would be glad to say so to your face. Must be a shill for the ambulance chasing leeches, if not actually one yourself.

-ccm

You read the above...why would anybody with any brains or options-in other words -the kind of a person you'd want at the other end of the stethoscope- have anything to do with this kind of garbage?.The world being created in the day-to-day practice of medicine, looks from the outside to be pretty crumby.....consequently the types winding up in it are those less capable.

What a load of crap. The doctors getting screwed are not the incompetent ones; they are the ones whose numbers have been called in the medicolegal lottery.

For your information, everytime, and I mean everytime a medical staff tries to take action against a bad apple, said bad apple promptly hires an attorney and threatens to sue the medical staff into the ground.

I hope you end up in a PA ER. Good luck.

The medical industry at LARGE refuses to address the massive incompetency that is ongoing in their profession. They refuse to take away licenses from doctors that are incompetent.

The "medical industry" does not issue medical licenses.

States do.

The "medical industry" does not revoke medical licenses.

States do.

If you have evidence of the "massive incompetency" that you claim exists, then make a list of all the doctors you know are incompetent, document the facts of the cases of such incompetence, write a complaint against the medical licenses of those doctors and then mail the documentation to your State's Board of Professional Licensing.

By the way, just out of curiosity, how many Morbidity and Mortality Reviews, Medical Staff Quality Assurance meetings and Hospital Credentials Meetings do you regularly attend?

At least in our Hospital and in our County, I see no evidence of the alleged "massive incompetency" that you claim exists at the M&M, MSQA and Credentials meetings that I attend.