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GEN: Suing The Ob-GynsFrom: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)Wed Aug 25 21:07:46 2004
Rich Lowry's 20 AUG piece in National Review ... Suing the OB-GYNs Our legal system doesn’t exactly welcome life into the world. It wasn't long ago that the obstetrician was celebrated in American culture, on television and in movies, as the reassuring professional who did the work necessary to produce that joyous first wail of a newborn. Now obstetricians are filling a different role — the target of medical-liability suits. Amazingly enough, we have created a legal system that disadvantages people who deliver babies. These aren't tax evaders, corrupt polluters or any other bogeymen you can conjure up. Obstetricians make the unlikeliest of anti-heroes, but they are nonetheless portrayed that way every day in America's courtrooms and, as a consequence, collectively punished for, essentially, their interest in women's health and babies. More ... http://nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200408201007.asp art
-- art fougner, md ich bin ein New Yorker
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