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Re: competency to consent From: Dean Huffman (perinatl@slip.net) Thu Jul 24 09:46:34 1997 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: charlie chambers: "Borage oil" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: adnexal cyst in a 27-wk-pregnancy" Maybe in reply to: Julie Graves Moy: "competency to consent" Next in thread: rbraun@indyunix.iupui.edu: "Re: competency to consent" Reply: rbraun@indyunix.iupui.edu: "Re: competency to consent" Unless you are in the military, in which case you cannot be sued for malpractice (only the U.S. Government can be sued), but you CAN GO TO PRISON for malpractice. The military can and does go after military physicians with court martail charges. (Seems to me that a thoracic surgeon was convicted in a court martail in the mid 1980's, but the conviction was overturned on appeal -- does anybody knwo anything about this?) -- Dean Huffman At 06:45 AM 7/22/97 -0500, you wrote: >And you can go to jail for Battery but not for malpractice. > >-- >@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ >R. Daniel Braun, MD FACOG "Money will buy you a fine dog >Clinical Professor OB/GYN but only love will make it >Indiana University School of Medicine wag its tail" >Indianapolis, IN Richard "Kinky" >OBGYN.net, International Rep. U.S. Friedman > Kinky Friedman for President >@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > >On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote: > >> >> In a message dated 7/21/97 10:11:57 AM, you wrote: >> >> <<Battery is a tort, but is an intentional tort not covered by most >> malpractice policies. It does not require financial damages as a medical >> malpractice (negligence) tort does.>> >> >> This is an important point. A recent case here in Louisiana differentiated a >> medical negligence/malpractice from a medical battery (a doc did a >> hysterectomy without consent). One difference would be that the negligence is >> covered by your malpractice insurance, but the battery is not. So you get >> dinged out of your own pocket. >> >> Joe P. >> > ================================================================== Dean G. Huffman Phone: 217 787-3745 FAX 217 787-0680 (Home) perinatl@slip.net 217 782-9666 217 524-2432 (Office) This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. H ================================================================== Next message: charlie chambers: "Borage oil" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: adnexal cyst in a 27-wk-pregnancy" Maybe in reply to: Julie Graves Moy: "competency to consent" Next in thread: rbraun@indyunix.iupui.edu: "Re: competency to consent" Reply: rbraun@indyunix.iupui.edu: "Re: competency to consent"

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