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Re: Doctors leaving delivery rooms over malpractice insurance costs From: Gordon (obgyndoc@swbell.net) Mon Apr 12 17:03:08 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: alternative PTL" Previous message: Douglas Krell: "Re: Doctors leaving delivery rooms over malpractice insurance costs" Maybe in reply to: art fougner, md: "Doctors leaving delivery rooms over malpractice insurance costs" Next in thread: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Doctors leaving delivery rooms over malpractice insurance costs" Unfortunately, Doug, you are correct (IMHO). When enough mothers and/or their babies have succumbed to complications of pregnancy that could have been prevented if detected early. The scenario is that OBs will not have enough time to see all the patients left behind by those who have stopped doing OB, so patients will just not get routine preventive care and disaster is the inevitable outcome. Only problem is, throwing money at that problem will not solve it. It will take a minimum two to four years before there will be sufficient numbers of newly trained OBs to replace those that have left an area or retired altogether. It's a disaster waiting to happen. -- Gordon M. Goldman, M.D., FACOG Private Practice, St. Louis, Missouri >----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Krell" <dkrell@msn.com> To: "Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L" <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 4:13 PM Subject: Re: Doctors leaving delivery rooms over malpractice insurance costs > On the radio driving home today I heard a commentator report > on a Boston area FBI agent who back in 2000, studied security issues at > Boston's Logan > Airport and actually sent a letter...pre-9/11... to none other than > Massachussetts Senator John Kerry. In the letter the FBI agent described > testing the security systems in place at a number of Logan's terminal gates > including the one the 9/11 terrorists actually used. He even proposed to the > Senator, > a scenario in which multiple hijackings might occur simultaneously, and that > their motives might include suicide terrorism attacks on major buildings and > landmarks. > > Now that sounds like Kerry was alerted to a specific threat at a specific > location...and look what happened. Nothing. > > My question is...how many OBGYN's have to go out of practice in order for > people > to realize that a problem exists and to actually DO something about it? > Given the analogy to 9/11, I think that it would take a major catastrophe > and then, people would only remember it for a short period of time. > > Douglas Krell MD > > _________________________________________________________________ > Check out MSN PC Safety & Security to help ensure your PC is protected and > _________________________________________________________________ > safe. http://specials.msn.com/msn/security.asp > Next message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: alternative PTL" Previous message: Douglas Krell: "Re: Doctors leaving delivery rooms over malpractice insurance costs" Maybe in reply to: art fougner, md: "Doctors leaving delivery rooms over malpractice insurance costs" Next in thread: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Doctors leaving delivery rooms over malpractice insurance costs"

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