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Re: Advice on refuting claims of negligence in Birth injuryFrom: DoctorJoe@aol.comSun Feb 18 22:24:26 2001
In a message dated 2/18/01 9:06:27 PM, forcep@shore.intercom.net writes: << Dean: you idea is too simple to behold.Lets see.Usually a member of ACOG is person being sued.Testimony is public and available and identifiable.Cases are reported to central places,either on the legal and/or medical side.Plantiffs experts have names which show up multiple times - what I am missing here? A reporting system? The lawyers certainly have this! An association to help them, ie the Trial Lawyers Association.No ,I'm just dreaming to think ACOG would get involved.Why not get off our butts and start this to help each other? >> ACOG DOES get involved. When someone is being harassed by a hospital, being "peer-reviewed" out of the hospital, as it were, by his/her competitors, they commonly call upon ACOG to review the victim's charts. ACOG is paid THOUSANDS of dollars by the institution and generates a report which gives the institution cover to dump the doc. Then, the administration and/or the medical executive committee giv es ACOG as the "expert" who made them can the doctor, and they (the committee) have "good faith" immunity. So the doctor in question is helpless... wiped out by two large organizations, one of whom he might be a dues-paying member of... BUT you've got to remember that the ob-gyns on the hospital staff/committee are ALSO dues-paying ACOG members. So ACOG gives ammunition to the side with the most players and the most payers. Joe P. (Sorry, sore subject...)
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