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Re: Florida group uses rally to send message about need to punish bad doctorsFrom: D. Ashley Hill, MD (dahmd@cfl.rr.com)Thu Oct 17 14:20:10 2002
At Thu, 17 Oct 2002, rmodugno@aol.com wrote:
>FLORIDA GROUP USES RALLY TO SEND MESSAGE ABOUT NEED TO PUNISH BAD DOCTORS The group described above met in response to a rally held by a large group of physicians, nurses, office staff and concerned citizens who met yesterday at Florida Hospital (where I work) to educate citizens about the liability crisis. Local physicians are not asking for restrictions against suing for malpractice, but rather want caps on "pain and suffering" awards and a better fee structure for malpractice lawyers. If a patient is harmed by malpractice they shoulc be able to collect appropriate compensation for lost wages and future medical care, as well as a capped "pain and suffering" amount (say, 250,000 dollars). That's the main component of our demands. Unfortunately, it sounds like a lot of these counterdemonstrators want to protect their ability to win multimillion dollar "pain and suffering" awards. This type of greed is one of the main reasons many of the ob/gyn physicians I know are circling their wagons and preparing to leave Florida, give up OB services, or retire early. We have lost around 10 local ob/gyn doctors and more are planning to leave. Those of us remaining are inundated with calls from pregnant women who want someone to deliver them. To put it in perspective for our foreign colleagues, a gynecologist I know who does part time office work, no surgery, no obstetrics, and no in-hospital work and who has no lawsuits just saw her annual premiums increase from 2,000 a year to over 22,000. Each of my partners and I pay around 135,000 a year. One guy, who has only one suit against him, has to pay over 200,000 this year, and in Dade/Broward counties the median premium for ob/gyns is 209,000 per year. I like Orlando and Florida, but if I had to pay that much a year in malpractice premiums I, too, would hit the road. Ashley
-- D. Ashley Hill, MD Associate Director Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Florida Hospital Family Practice Residency Orlando, Florida
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