[NautiNurse]

PA and WV are not alone. Four of five nephrologists in Manatee Co. FL are out of business since Jan. 1. Obstetrics is clobbered too.

I suppose the trial lawyers are revved up to pad their wallets with more lawsuits for "patient abandonment." I don't expect the trial lawyers will cough up stats for increases in their coffers for the past ten or twenty years.

[DH]

There is a simple solution to the problem.

Why don't the doctors go on strike and refuse to treat all LAWYERS?

That would accomplish two things, one is to rid the world of bottom feeding scum and the other is to make the lawyers take notice of the damage they do to our society!

[galt-jw]

Atlas shrugs. we are very close to Ayn Rand's novel, Atlas Shrugged, coming true. how many corporations have relocated offshore to avoid statist, unreasonable taxation.

I read a story where it was reported that some doctors are quitting altogether. Apparently, they can neither practice medicine OR be compensated reasonably.

The brightest are the first to go. The proles will never leave the hobbit hole. See: the brain drain.

[joonbug]

Florida has a "neurological injury fund" to compensate those with those types of injuries as the legal settlements can be horrendous. All physicians licensed in Fla are required to pony up $250 per year for this fund, whether or not they even practice medicine in Florida. I wonder where that money is going and if it has had any beneficial effect on the malpractice problem.