Posted on 05/24/2003 6:48:35 AM PDT by friendly
Desert Springs Hospital will shut down its maternity center at the end of the summer because the facility has lost more than half its obstetricians.
The closure comes just months after hospital officials closed the orthopedic department and struggled to find enough surgeons to care for emergency room patients. Health officials blame the closure on the state's medical malpractice insurance troubles, which have forced some doctors to leave the state or curtail their speciality services.
Larry Matheis, executive director of the Nevada State Medical Association, said the closure is another example of the fallout from the state's medical liability troubles.
"This is just an example of the continuing erosion of the medical system in Southern Nevada," Matheis said.
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It just seems to me that the illegal alien criminal association will have to sue to keep this facility open. Why should the taxpayers of this city not have the priveledge of paying for the maternity costs of illegal aliens?
200 deliveries a year is a brutal high risk, assembly-line practice. 100-125 is more reasonable and proper for an OB-GYN.
More accurate math: At $150,000 to $200,000 for the lawyer tax, this works out to up to $2000 per delivery for a normal practice.
Result? No more obstetricians. Just like Las Vegas.
Believe it or not, the lawyers don't care. (surprise!) The money they steal is more important to these greedy, evil shysters, than understanding that they are killing the goose that layed the golden eggs.
The lawyer industry is violating the primary rule of successful parasites: You don't suck ALL of the life out of your victims.
The democrats clearly plan to enrich themselves (or at least their trial lawyer constituency and chief campaign contributors), destroy the trauma and obstetrical system, and have the predictable gall to demand a federal takeover and universal health system to "correct" the non-functional, lawyer-ravaged system. I am absolutely convinced this will be evil, calculating democrats and lawyer-politician Hillary's agenda and main selling point when the time comes.
I think that the trial lawyers are only too happy to be a part of the democrat effort to destroy the health care system, so that the democrats will then trot themselves out of the shadows to claim to be saviors!
Absolutely true: Floriduh's statewide trauma system is in free fall collapse as we speak, for example.
One maddening thing (for the docs) about the med malpractice industry is that the suits and payouts generally bear no relationship to competence.
Thus doctors who agree see the most high risk (sickest) patients are the most likely to be sued. Very sick patients are more likely to have adverse outcomes. Emergency trauma cases (often performed under insane battlefield type conditions) are the ones where sponges (pads to soak up blood) and other objects are left behind, something the democrats will never tell you.
Other shyster scams include the gold mine (for crooked lawyers) with mega-bucks from the neurosurgeons (brain injury almost always has some residual brain damage, by definition) and obstetricans (congenital blameless birth defects equals lawyer yachts and French Riviera condos)
IN 34-51-3-6: Payment of punitive damage award to clerk of court
... (b) Upon receiving the payment... the clerk of the court shall:
(1) pay the person to whom punitive damages were awarded twenty-five percent (25%) of the punitive damage award; and
(2) pay the remaining seventy-five percent (75%) of the punitive damage award to the treasurer of state, who shall deposit the funds into the violent crime victims compensation fund established by IC 5-2-6.1-40.
Compensatory damages, which reimburse a victim for the economic loss, is not capped, but punitive damages, where the shyster-lawyer makes his living, are. Not only that, but 75% of the punitive damages don't even go to the victim, severely limiting the number of claimants that are looking for their "lottery-jackpot".
It was too bad, he and his late doctor father delivered half the babies in that town.
It's not just a Southwest problem, it's a country-wide scandal. Everyone sees it except the politicians beholden to the attorney malpractice money machine.
Leni
Dr. Carter noted that OB/GYNs in Florida pay over $200,000 annually per physician for liability insurance, in Pennsylvania the cost is $100,000, and in Indiana the cost of insurance is about $20,000.
"Where do you think a physician is going to practice?," she asked.
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