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Re: Hospital Liability Requirement From: Douglas Krell (dkrell@msn.com) Thu Mar 25 16:43:48 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: GYN Oncology question" Previous message: Robert Radnich: "Re: GYN Oncology question" Maybe in reply to: Lynn D. Montgomery, M.D.: "Hospital Liability Requirement" Next in thread: Robert J. Carpenter, Jr. MD: "Re: Hospital Liability Requirement" Reply: Robert J. Carpenter, Jr. MD: "Re: Hospital Liability Requirement" Did anyone NOT see the article in yesterdays WSJ?? An increasing number of OBGYN's and other high risk specialists are going without liability insurance and having their patients agree to sign release of liability forms...or face dismissal from the practice. It surprised me to learn that the majority of the patients agreed to sign the form. They are considered legal contracts...they have just not been tested in court. If we all had patients sign waivers...then perhaps we might see fewer nuisance suits...lower premiums?????? -- Douglas Krell MD >From: Joe Cutchin <forcep@intercom.net> >Reply-To: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net >To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net> >Subject: Re: Hospital Liability Requirement >Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:52:39 -0600 > >Yes,you are correct,Lynn.I was dismissed from Md hospital not because I >didn't have gyn insurance but that I could not purchase 21 year tail >coverage for ob which I had stopped a year earlier. > >"Lynn D. Montgomery, M.D." wrote: > > > Heh y'all,Can anybody direct me to where I can find out about how > > physicians in Florida went about getting hospitals to repeal the > > requirement for proof of liability insurance to have admitting > > privileges. In the "old days", I can see where there was not a big > > problem with this, but now with premiums out of control and other > > avenues available for us as physicians, this seems to represent > > restriction of trade or just plain extortion.Lynn Lynn D. Montgomery, > > M.D.Maternal-Fetal Medicine, OB/GYNRocky Mountain Women's Health2835 > > Fort Missoula Rd., Suite 303Missoula, Montana, 59804406-549-0978fax > > 406-549-0987e-mail: apgar10@montanadsl.net > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Toolbar provides one-click access to Hotmail from any Web page – FREE _________________________________________________________________ download! http://toolbar.msn.com/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/ Next message: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: GYN Oncology question" Previous message: Robert Radnich: "Re: GYN Oncology question" Maybe in reply to: Lynn D. Montgomery, M.D.: "Hospital Liability Requirement" Next in thread: Robert J. Carpenter, Jr. MD: "Re: Hospital Liability Requirement" Reply: Robert J. Carpenter, Jr. MD: "Re: Hospital Liability Requirement"

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