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Re: Amenorrhea From: Robert J Woolley (wooll005@gold.tc.umn.edu) Wed Sep 4 17:51:07 1996 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: SAVARIS@vortex.ufrgs.br: "Re: Amenorrhea" Previous message: Robert J Woolley: "Re: Amenorrhea" In reply to: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Re: Amenorrhea" Next in thread: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Amenorrhea" On Wed, 4 Sep 1996 richardc@bcm.tmc.edu wrote: > > >But, with all due respect, the fundamental question is which consequence > >*she* would rather face, not which one *you* would rather face. > > > > If shed face the consequence of my action (I.e. proscribing OCPs in a high > risk situation) then I'd be liabale. If she refuse medical advice, continued > smoking, and became pregnant, with an adverse outcome, then would I be > liabale? I attempted to modify her behavior to maximize her outcome. She > refuses, why must I "face" the consequences? > > Rick > I just reponded to a similar comment from Joe THE MAN! It seems to me that you follow him in looking out for your own interests over hers. Look at it this way: what would you do for her if you lived in a country where there was no such thing as legal liability, medical malpractice, etc? Would you then agree that the risk of morbidity from pregnancy outwieghed the risk of morbidity from BCPs, and prescribe them? If so, and you would not now because of fear of liability, then you absolutely are putting your own interests ahead of the patient's interests, and that is just wrong, wrong, wrong. IMHO, of course. Next message: SAVARIS@vortex.ufrgs.br: "Re: Amenorrhea" Previous message: Robert J Woolley: "Re: Amenorrhea" In reply to: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Re: Amenorrhea" Next in thread: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Amenorrhea"

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