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Re: CNMs From: Joe Cutchin (forcep@intercom.net) Tue Jul 8 19:30:13 2003 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Dean Huffman: "GOP to Move Bill to Limit Medical Damages" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: CNMs" Right on,Gerald.A damn national disgrace for a group that calls themselves a "profession". "Gerald P. Rodríguez" wrote: > > It simply doesn't happen that attorneys > > take on cases they think are borderline, with the fees experts are > > charging these days, they'd go bankrupt to pursue cases without clear > > liability. > > > > -- > > Marilyn Ringstaff, CNM > > > I'm very sorry Marilyn, but you are simply *wrong* is this assertion. In > the first instance, you speak in absolute terms which brings you to utter an > untenable statement. I can name you 6 cases right here in Santa Fe which > went to trial after being lost at our NM Medical-Legal Panel. The details > of three of these cases, although not directly involving me, are extremely > well-known to me and all were handily won by the defense albeit at great > cost, both in $$ and emotional terms to the defendant Ob/Gyns. In my 35 > years experience both as a resident at UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital > (late 60s, early 70s)and my 30 years here in Santa Fe, NM, the trial lawyers > will go to court if they think they can get a sympathetic jury. > > Gerald P. Rodríguez, M.D., FACOG > Santa Fe Next message: Dean Huffman: "GOP to Move Bill to Limit Medical Damages" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: CNMs"

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