Re: Coulter, Malpractice & Edwards

From: Harrison Sheld (hsheld@anv.net)
Sun Jul 11 12:42:57 2004

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Points well taken. The editorialists in July Contemporary OB/GYN are worried about OTC Plan B while trial lawyers want to rip our hearts out with their bare hands. On the other hand, in this month's Green Journal, ACOG and ABOG want to maintain excellence suggesting some more hoops to jump through for credentialing. How many state boards now want proof of CME in Bioterrorism, End of Life Care, Ethics, and whatever. Next it will be table manners. And then, and this is the kicker, we are asked why there are a declining number of med school applicants, and fewer physicians are going into OB/GYN. Golly gee, I don't know. Maybe some of our colleagues will wise up when the yearly Compendium of Selected Publications is replaced with the Federal Register.

Don Miller wrote:

>>Personally, I'd prefer keeping such vitriol spewing columnists like Ann
>>Coulter off the list.
>>
>
>>I second the motion that we refrain from quoting miscreants
>>
>
>Personally, I'd prefer that we denounce those on the list who would try
>to impose their own political "filters" on what should or should not be
>posted here. And why is it always those who are the most "liberal", are
>the ones who are most intolerant of opposing views and are so quick to
>name-calling?
>
>>In the hope of getting this conversation back onto the issue at hand
>>
>
>The issue "at hand" is tort/malpractice reform and NOT which candidate
>is most eloquent. I hope that you agree that the progress of
>tort/malpractice reform in the USA directly affects, every day, the
>livelihood and career choices of many on this list. Physicians should
>be allowed to inform themselves of ALL views on such issues and make
>their own decisions - and then live with the consequences of those
>decisions.
>
>As I first said, it is a certainty, that with a trial lawyer who has
>made millions suing doctors (primarily obstetricians) in the White House
>(e.g. a fox in the henhouse), that tort reform would be DEAD for years.
>I just hope that trial lawyers don't try to "get back" at physicians
>like they did to the docs in Florida who sought to limit trial lawyer
>fees.
>
>BTW, I like how you have decided that physicians are the real source of
>the malpractice crisis. I'm sure Edwards and the trial lawyers' lobby
>would agree with you.
>
>--
>Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD, FACOG
>eNATAL, LLC
>http://www.eNATAL.com
>

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