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Re: Birthing decisionsFrom: dahmd@gate.netFri Mar 8 07:52:08 1996
In article ggori@orsola.dsnet.it (Gianfranco Gori) writes: snip
>And if, unfurtunately, a birth home becomes a medical case wilth a poor I agree with many of Dr. Gori's points, but would like to point out recent cases where courts (and juries) HAVE punished the doctor who was the "last ring of a long chain". Around the middle of last year, Medical Economics magazine published an article about a Pulmonologist/Critical Care doctor in Texas (I think) who was called in as about the last consultant after a general practitioner apparently caused sepsis doing liposuctions. The patient was critically ill, the critical care guy did everything right by all accounts and stayed on the ICU all night, but the patient died. You guessed it...the jury had to punish somebody, and since everybody else settled or went bankrupt, the critical care doctor was left responsible for the entire settlement. He was called in last, tried his best, and despite heroic efforts, there was a bad outcome. In the US, the person with the "deepest pockets", usually the physician, gets the bill when anything goes wrong. So much for a fair and impartial jury system! Thanks, D. Ashley Hill, M.D. Orlando, Fl dahmd@gate.net
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