[ChemistCat]

I had neurosurgery last year. Not a perfect outcome, but I'm a complex case. I cannot imagine suing my talented surgeon for doing his best, just because the outcome isn't all I'd hoped for. I'm better off than I was--still have some pain, but I'm STABLE now anyway.

I imagine that if a lawyer got ahold of me, and if I happened to be stupider or less moral than I am, he or she could persuade me that I was damaged by the surgeon, and that I'm "entitled" to a hefty wad of cash.

[hinckley buzzard]

"entitled" to a hefty wad of cash.

Yes. It's all well and good to blame
greedy shysters and crazy juries; but considering 90% of malpractice claims are BS, the greedy self-serving patient (or patient's family) has a defining role to play.

Of couse, the arrogant doctor (and surgeons are the most arrogant of all, as a class) who enjoys and encourages being treated like god, is not exactly an innocent victim when his patients are then disappointed and angered by less than godlike results.