Re: VBAC revisited
From: Gail Waldby (gwaldby@willinet.net)
Thu Jul 3 12:19:52 2003
Richard, they can still say they didn't understand it, that it was just
another form they had to sign.
Gail
Richard Chudacoff, MD wrote:
>Hence the notary
>
>Richard Chudacoff, MD
>
>America will never be destroyed from the outside.
>If we falter and lose our freedoms,
>it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
>
>Abraham Lincoln
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net]On Behalf Of Gail Waldby
>Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 12:00 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
>Subject: Re: VBAC revisited
>
>I agree that this is naive. If your lawyer asks in depositions or at
>trial, did they sign the consent which said such and such, the patient
>and family will say, we signed it, but we didn't read it, we had to sign
>it because you always have to sign forms to get medical care. They will
>also say nobody told them that whatever bad result they have could
>happen--if they had just known, they would have chosen differently.
>Gail Waldby, MD
>Huron Clinic SD
>
>Douglas Krell wrote:
>
>>Am I naive to feel that
>>
>>>the patient has assumed most of the risk of her decision at this point?
>>>
>>Absolutely naive. Do you have any idea to what extent patients and
>>their attorneys will go to lie, cheat, and steal their way into the
>>financial assets of your insurance company? And if you're particularly
>>unlucky they might come after you personally..civily...possibly even
>>criminally. Then armed with nothing more than accusations. you risk
>>becoming uninsurable, unemployable, or non-viable in business due
>>excessive overhead expenses.
>>
>>If something bad were to happen, your patients, indoctrinated by 20
>>years of managed care rhetoric probably wouldn't think twice about
>>legally whooping your a...
>>
>>Douglas Krell MD
>>
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