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Re: FRI Highest Malpractice Award in Michigan History From: Harrison Sheld (hsheld@anv.net) Thu May 31 10:17:33 2001 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: T. Herndon: "3d Ultrasound" Previous message: Gerald P. Rodriguez: "Re: LAVH - was: GYN: LSH vs. LAVH" Next in thread: Eberhard Lisse: "Re: FRI Highest Malpractice Award in Michigan History" Reply: Eberhard Lisse: "Re: FRI Highest Malpractice Award in Michigan History" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yes. Well the juries like to send messages with these 8 figure awards. In this case, I am not sure if the message they thought they sent is the message we received. The message from the award, and all such exorbitant awards is: Only a darn fool practices obstetrics these days. What with increasing government generated paperwork and their regulations, increasing malpractice insurance premiums (here in Nevada the State Insurance Commission just approved increases in premiums of 100%, 90% and 35% for the three largest carriers), increasing malpractice awards, and decreasing managed care reimbursements, the only accoucheurs that will be left are paupers with a terminal disease. DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 5/30/01 6:12:34 PM, marilyncnm@hotmail.com writes: > > << In what is believed to be the largest medical malpractice verdict in > Michigan history, Washtenaw County last week awarded Dawn Goll with $23 > million for the "inexplicable" absence of her obstetrician during the birth > of her fourth child, who has brain damage due to complications during labor, > the Detroit News reports. Goll had arranged for obstetrician Lawrence > Schrock to "personally oversee" the birth of the child, Sierra, to help > prevent complications that caused her third child to be born with mild brain > damage. However, Schrock missed the birth, and Sierra also suffered > permanent brain damage. >> > > Okay... now we need to come up with a tight, concise (is that redundant?) > definition of a new medical-malpractice-obstetrical term: "SCHROCKed". I'm > just not sure if we should make it "condition of a doctor who gets sued for > missing delivery" or "damage to a baby due to lack of birth attendant" or > "giving lots of money in a case with genetic damage and blaming it on someone > else" or what... Any ideas? > > Joe P. Next message: T. Herndon: "3d Ultrasound" Previous message: Gerald P. Rodriguez: "Re: LAVH - was: GYN: LSH vs. LAVH" Next in thread: Eberhard Lisse: "Re: FRI Highest Malpractice Award in Michigan History" Reply: Eberhard Lisse: "Re: FRI Highest Malpractice Award in Michigan History"

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