Re: VBAC revisited
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Fri Jul 4 14:19:15 2003
why not simply be upfront with the patient and state flat out that you
will not and cannot offer vbac given your practice circumstances? if she
is unhappy, then direct her to the nearest obstetrician who will offer
vbac. know when to hold em, know when to fold em.
art
At Thu, 03 Jul 2003, Gail Waldby wrote:
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>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:
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>>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:
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>>>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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art fougner, md
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