Re: Defining Immediately Available
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Thu Apr 19 21:19:34 2001
folks, the sad reality is that once in the courtroom, medicine has
little to do with it. as a local attorney so aptly put it, it isn't
about truth but rather the appearance of truth. and a bad jury trumps a
good defense attorney any day.
art
At Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Gerald P. Rodriguez wrote:
>
>Yes, and a good plaintiff's lawyer can get a jury to find you below the
>standard of care because you were down the hall.
>
>--
>Gerald P. Rodriguez, M.D., FACOG
>Santa Fe, NM
>>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Efrain Ramirez" <eramirez@icepr.com>
>To: "Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L" <ob-gyn-l@mail.medispecialty.com>
>Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 5:13 PM
>Subject: Re: Defining Immediately Available
>
>> Right!!! and a good defense lawyer might get you out because the term
>> was meant to say"immediately available" - medically speaking.
>>
>> At Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Gerald P. Rodriguez wrote:
>> >
>>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: <DoctorJoe@aol.com>
>> >To: "Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L"
><ob-gyn-l@mail.medispecialty.com>
>> >Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 8:16 AM
>> >Subject: Re: Defining Immediately Available
>> >
>> >> In a message dated 4/17/01 07:19:16, RModugno@aol.com writes:
>> >>
>> >> << By actually making a definition for "immediately available" and
>> >> incorporating
>> >> it into a hospital policy then you will be held to that when cases are
>> >> litigated. IMHO the term "immediately available" should be left
>> >"undefined".
>> >> Unofficially, you may reach a consensus on what this means. >>
>> >>
>> >> Good point. The Hospital will turn on the doctor and claim he wasn't
>> >> "immediately available."
>> >>
>> >> Joe P.
>> >>
>> >..........And a good plaintiff's lawyer will convince the jury that one
>> >wasn't "immediately available" because the physician was down the hall in
>> >another patient's room reading a monitor strip.
>> >
>> >Gerald P. Rodriguez, M.D., FACOG
>>
>> --
>> "Life is neither the notes nor the silence between the notes, but the
>music that
>> arises out of sound and silence felt as a living whole. Stop
>choosing...between
>> chaos and order, and live at the boundary between them, where rest and
>action
>> move together..." David Whyte
>>
--
art fougner, md
A series of 1000 cases begins with but a single anecdote.
