Your Uncle Dave’s mother was appointed by the governor as the lay person on her state’s medical malpractice board years ago. They would review the evidence against doctors and decide if they should keep their licenses. Based on tales she told, combined with my once having been on a jury in a medical malpractice case, nothing surprises me.
Want to see how your state stacks up on hospitals charging patients when medical errors occur? Oops. Sorry for whacking off your leg instead of just the mole. That’ll still be $10,000.
When the sharp pain shooting through Lisa Strong’s back got worse, she thought it was another kidney stone and expected the discomfort to pass. This time was different.
Everyone except the jury that ruled against Strong.
The verdict came in the face of such overwhelming evidence that in a rare move, the judge tossed out the jury's decision and ordered a new trial.
[...emergency room Dr. Laurentina] Kocik, a 30-year veteran of ER medicine, insists she told Dr. Strong over the phone that Lisa Strong likely had a kidney stone. Dr. Strong works for a firm contracted by Lisa Strong's insurance company to make medical decisions if her personal doctor isn't available or chooses not to make the call.
But Kocik didn’t write “kidney stone” on her diagnosis report. Asked during the trial if she wished she had written it down, Kocik said: “You better believe I wish I did … a million times.”
Dr. Strong remembers talking with Kocik and there was not a mention of a kidney stone. He also was not told she was in septic shock, so he went with a diagnosis of acute cholecystitis, a gallbladder condition unrelated to the kidneys.
Dr. Strong handled everything by phone, which is common in such cases.
Just what I want when desperately ill — a doctor diagnosing me by phone.
#17 What ticked me off is the fact that if there’s anyone in here who needs to get real is you.
Why do we hate government involvement? because governemt has the potential to be way worse than any other corporate sleazebag with all the power not to be taken into account.
When are corporations untouchable? When they have government connections, otherwise, they’d be toasted. So you see, already government involvement is making healthcare bad. And you want more involvement? Deranged!
Get real, would ya!
#20
LMAO
“..Health care, but its very definition, CANNOT be profitable since it’s more profitable for you to be dead than alive..”
The very limbs that the young lady in the picture is using were not created by a pencil pusher with no ambition. Nor were they created by an altruistic blue ribbon committee of elected officials.
It’s sad this fact has been forgotten by so many.
22,
Huh. Who would have thought that prosthetic limbs were considered “health care”. I think you need to redefine where health care ends and limb replacement devices begin.
Idiot.
#16, cafe,
There exists a remedy to deal with Judges who make mistakes, it’s a long time consuming process that doesn’t start until the judge makes many mistakes.
There is? Please tell us. As far as I know, Judges are immune from civil penalties. Period! If you know of some example where the opposite holds true then please enlighten us with a citation or reference. The only remedy for bad Judges is removal from the bench or criminal charges.
Is this the process you want to follow for medical mistakes?
For most errors, this is what we currently have for medical mistakes.
Complain all you want about the ‘evil’ (and imperfect)profit making insurance companies, but they at least respond. The companies don’t make money when they are sued for mistakes, losing market share with bad publicity.
Large health insurance companies, for the most part, are immune to law suits. They don’t care about bad publicity because they sell their product to faceless accountants that buy corporate wide policies. The accountants only care if the policies meet the minimum standards set down by law.
If you would (via government) would quit telling these companies what they have to cover, the process would be alot better.
In other words, you want the health insurance companies to determine what they will and will not cover. Something like the situation today where people die in the hospital because some insurance company is trying to determine if they cover that procedure before giving the go-ahead.
Service and payment is between the doctor and patient – insurance is a convenience, if it’s not convenient, don’t use it.
Spoken by someone without insurance, no family or other dependents, invulnerable, and full of shit. Come back and comment when you start living in the real world.
And what quality of doctor will will you find who works for free?
The only ones asking the doctors work for free are the right wing nuts. All those in favor of a national health plan acknowledge ALL medical personnel deserve to be paid for their work.
Yup. Just another ijit thinking he knows it all but doesn’t have a clue. Maybe you haven’t been sick a day in your life, but what about your mother? Would you like to see her writhe in pain as cancer slowly eats her body and no one will pay for medical care? How about your father, as he bumps into things more and more often as the cataracts slowly blind him.
#22, cafe,
The very limbs that the young lady in the picture is using were not created by a pencil pusher with no ambition. Nor were they created by an altruistic blue ribbon committee of elected officials.
And they are only required because an insurance company decided to go cheap and deny her adequate care.
#25 You keep being quite dense, don’t you?
#26, ‘dro,
Have you made an intelligent comment yet?
#24/25 Fusion,
I don’t have much more to add to your comments – you answered your questions the more you rambled.
Using the judges for example:
I didn’t say anything about a civil cause. You assumed-incorrectly. But you did manage to talk yourself into the correct answer about how hard it is to remove a judge – Which was my point.
May I offer a suggestion. Go home, get a good night sleep. Come back tomorrow after you’ve had a cup of coffee and a clear head. Apparently the Obama kool-aid is more than 80 proof and has muddled your thinking. Better yet, send some of that drink over to me..it must be good stuff!
And for #23, Named
Insults are just like playground bubble gum – bounces off me and sticks to you.