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Re: Problem patient From: Joanne Bulley, MD (islesannie@yahoo.com) Wed Apr 12 20:44:04 2006 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: Example of out of control US legal system" Previous message: D. Ashley Hill: "Example of out of control US legal system" In reply to: Dean Huffman .: "Re: Problem patient" Next in thread: Dean Huffman .: "Re: Problem patient" I thought the Psychic one was in Pennsylvania and was reversed on appeal ... Could be wrong. Joanne At Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Dean Huffman . wrote: > >.. > >A similar case, about 15 - 20 years ago in California (I do not have >documentation). A woman went to an OB/GYN annually for exam. Each year he tried >to do a PAP smear, but she refused, saying she could not pay for it. He even >offered to pay the lab cost himself, but she refused. > >The long and short of it is that she finally developed cervical cancer and >successfully sued the OB/GYN because he had not done a PAP smear. > >Another one in the Bronx, New York. A pshcyic had a CT scan, after which she >lost her psychic powers. She sued and won damages because the CT caused her to >lose her powers. (If she was such a good psychic, she should have known better >than to have the CT in the first place.) > >Perhaps what is more bothersome in these cases is that they are not reversed on >appeal. > >- - - - > -- Joanne Bulley, MD Keene, NH, USA "Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is." — Duke Ellington, American jazz artist (1899-1974). Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: Example of out of control US legal system" Previous message: D. Ashley Hill: "Example of out of control US legal system" In reply to: Dean Huffman .: "Re: Problem patient" Next in thread: Dean Huffman .: "Re: Problem patient"

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