[jimkress]

If, through your negligence or through your specific incompetence, someone comes to harm, you would be prosecuted.

[bonesmccoy]

Health care should not receive the same legal evaluation as product liability.

Medical judgement is risky. Physicians can be wrong, but should not be subjected to financial ruin at the hands of unscrupulous litigation.

You clearly do not understand the differences between fictional views of healthcare and the reality (and limitations) of our relatively poor dataset from which to judge illness and interventions.

[ccmay]

If, through your negligence or through your specific incompetence, someone comes to harm, you would be prosecuted.

Are you crazy? Who would work under such conditions? Would you?

You think we have a medical meltdown now, try getting this passed and see what happens.

We already have laws concerning negligent homicide, assault and battery, sexual harrassment, rape, fraud, etc., which apply to everyone, and cover essentially all truly malicious acts by physicians.

-ccm

[Jim Noble]

If, through your negligence or through your specific incompetence, someone comes to harm, you would be prosecuted

Watch a lot of television, eh?.

"People" turn into "patients" when they get sick. That means they are already "coming to harm".

Sometimes, the harm can be ameliorated because of what we do. On occasion, it can be eliminated entirely.

However, on occasion, harm continues to the endpoint of a bad outcome, or death, despite what we do. Also, on occasion, our interventions into an unstable and confusing situation makes it worse.

Who on earth would work in this environment under threat of criminal prosecution? You? The doctors on "ER"?

Not me, pal. If you ever get this passed, best of luck when you're sick.