Re: Hospital Liability Requirement
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Fri Mar 26 08:10:32 2004
Try Florida.
art
At Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Joe Cutchin wrote:
>
>Unfortunately you must have hospital that will allow you to have no
>insurance.Where is that?
>
>Douglas Krell wrote:
>
>> 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
>> >
>>
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art fougner, md
ich bin ein New Yorker
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