Re: Tort reform for obstetricians fails in the Senate - OBs are 'special'
From: =?utf-8?Q?Gerald_P._RodrÃguez?= (geraldpr@cybermesa.com)
Thu Mar 4 07:27:13 2004
For someone who feels strongly that there are way too many Ob-Gyns in the
marketplace, your feelings on this issue are consistent.
Gerald P. Rodríguez, M.D., FACOG
Santa Fe
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From: "Braun, R. Daniel" <rbraun@iupui.edu>
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Subject: Re: Tort reform for obstetricians fails in the Senate - OBs are
'special'
> I would like to object, since I asked the question and I am not apathetic
(On this issue) AND MY OX has been gored. Getting "Special Legislation"
passed to protect a special group just ain't the right way to go about it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net on behalf of Gerald P. Rodríguez
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> Subject: Re: Tort reform for obstetricians fails in the Senate - OBs are
'special'
>
> I agree with everything you've said, Don, EXCEPT, for your last paragraph
> wherein you claim "to be preaching to the choir." It's clear to me that
> there are many among us whose political leanings make them deaf/blind to
who
> among the politicians/lawmakers are making the practice of obstetrics
> untenable. Alternatively they are full of apathy, perhaps because their
ox
> has yet to be gored.
>
> Gerald P. Rodríguez, M.D., FACOG
> Santa Fe
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> "No Man is an Island"
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Miller" <DrMiller@eNATAL.com>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L" <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 8:43 AM
> Subject: Re: Tort reform for obstetricians fails in the Senate - OBs are
> 'special'
>
> > >> Why should it be limited to OB-GYN's?
> >
> > > why are
> > > OB-GYNs so special?
> >
> > Picking low-hanging fruit is sometimes the best strategy rather than
> > holding out for something that's not ever going to happen, e.g.
"Perfect
> > is the enemy of the good."
> >
> > AND, Obstetrics *IS* "special" (from a liability perspective as well).
> >
> > First of all, what other specialty incurs liability for two patients at
> > once, especially when one of those patients is a minor where liability
> > is extended for at least 18 more years?
> >
> > What other area of medicine are clinicians literally liable for the
> > health and perfection of a clump of a few hundred cells (or as others
> > call the "clump" - a baby) as the baby grows into billions of cells
> > (even though clinicians can influence almost nothing)?
> >
> > What other specialty is there when you see a patient the first time, you
> > KNOW that you'll eventually meet the patient again at the hospital
> > sometime in the next 8 months, at any hour of the day or night,
> > occasionally in life-threatening situations, and chances are at least 1
> > out of 4 or better that you'll have to perform major surgery (e.g.
C/S)?
> >
> > What other specialty has a liability pool of about 4 million women EVERY
> > year at the most perilous and emotional times of their lives (other than
> > *their* birth), not to mention the other millions of relatives and loved
> > ones who know lawyers?
> >
> > I know I am preaching to the choir, but maybe the pagans will even
> > understand that obstetrics is different than other areas of medicine
> > especially when it comes to liability. Hooray for whoever had the
> > insight to propose this as a first step, even it is a patch on a broken
> > system.
> >
> > --
> > Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD, FACOG
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> > http://www.eNATAL.com
> >
>
