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Re: What's up Doc? Tell it to the hand. From: Garry E. Siegel, M.D. (garrys@mindspring.com) Sat Jun 28 14:04:11 2003 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: What's up Doc?  Tell it to " Previous message: Robert J. Carpenter, Jr. MD: "Re: What's up Doc?  Tell it to the hand." In reply to: djkrell@ix.netcom.com: "What's up Doc? Tell it to the hand." Well put, Doug. Garry At Fri, 27 Jun 2003, djkrell@ix.netcom.com wrote: > >This article is by far the biggest slap in the face I've seen or heard of for quite some time. >For every wrong site surgery or illegible handwriting error that's happened, I believe that there are many many times more suits for non-preventable adverse outcomes that can be litigated and settled in order to compensate the unhappy victim and line the pockets of the crafty plaintiffs attorneys. > >If anything the fault lies as much with the declining reimbursement environment where there is no financial incentive for doctors or hospitals to upgrade computer systems or medical equipment until the bitter end, where 40 patient visits per day is just enough to get by, and where the doctor patient relationship has deteriorated to the level of the vendor and the customer. > >If all our money is merely paper, then lets work it out so that doctors and hospitals are more profitable entities than insurance companies and personal injury lawyers, and so that injured people can be helped financially without 30% going to the attorney. Human error and non-preventable medical events should not end up in court. The term "malpractice" should be very narrowly interpreted, then the consequence of such an offense can quite rightly be dire. > >Douglas Krell MD -- Garry E. Siegel, M.D. Private Practice Roswell, GA Next message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: What's up Doc?  Tell it to " Previous message: Robert J. Carpenter, Jr. MD: "Re: What's up Doc?  Tell it to the hand." In reply to: djkrell@ix.netcom.com: "What's up Doc? Tell it to the hand."

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