Re: DOCTORS' AD CAMPAIGN BASELESS
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Sat Apr 6 06:16:34 2002
contact Marilyn -
apparently she has all the answers.
sorry Marilyn - just my opinion, i could be wrong.
art
At Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Charles Rossmann wrote:
>
>I would like to know if anybody is informed about the medical
>malpractice crisis in Georgia and if there are any actions planned to
>help the suffering physicians. I did know nothing about it untill the
>MAG Mutual Insurance company canceled with 6 weeks notice my
>liability insurance and let me search for replacement. Last year my
>premium was $36,000 per year as a OB-GYN, now I cannot find anything
>under $110,000 per year, which is more than 30 % of my yearly
>collections. I was told that next year my premium will increase other
>25%. Is this a normal situation or is there something wrong with the
>system? Do other doctors have similar problems and how many in
>Georgia? I work in solo practice in rural area, I am 7/24 on call
>for our hospital and 60% patients are on Medicaid. Is this the wrong
>way to practice medicine?
>
>--
>Charles Rossmann, M.D.
>Obstetrics & Gynecology
>2000 N. Patterson Street
>Valdosta, GA 31602, U.S.A.
>http://www.rossmann.salu.net
>crossmann@hotmail.com
>rossmann@pol.net
>Phone: 229-242-4762
>
>DOCTORS' AD CAMPAIGN BASELESS
>
>The advertising blitz used by doctors and
>hospitals to win $400 million in state concessions
>on malpractice insurance by claiming large numbers
>of physicians are fleeing Pennsylvania is not
>supported by fact, a Morning Call examination
>shows. Soaring premiums are contributing to
>increasing economic and emotional pressures on
>doctors, interviews show, but conditions have not
>reached the breaking point described by the half-
>million-dollar ad campaign. Ads asked newspaper
>readers and radio audiences such ominous questions
>as: ''Will the last doctor leaving Pennsylvania
>please turn off the X-ray machine?'' Available
>statistics show the campaign's central theme to be
>unfounded and some anecdotal evidence of fleeing
>physicians -- offered by doctors and their
>advocates -- to fall short under scrutiny.
>
>http://www.mcall.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=all%2Da1%
>5F5docsmar24§ion=%2Fnews%2Flocal
>
>Marilyn Ringstaff, CNM
>Rome, Ga
>
--
art fougner, md
ich bin ein New Yorker
