Re: Compliance
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Mon Mar 15 08:32:23 1999
whoever said juries are fair. jury verdict for plaintiff whose response
to failure to return for her evaluation of her abnormal pap was: " Hey,
you never told me i could have cancer."
Art
At Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Braun, R. Daniel wrote:
>
>I am aware of at least one legal case where a patient failed to come in for
>follow up on a breast lump as recommended. Then after having breast cancer
>diagnosed 2 years later, she sued her physician for not making the necessary
>effort to get her back in. This was in Texas a few years ago, if my memory
>serves me right.
>Dan
>R. Daniel Braun, MD FACOG
>Clinical Professor
>Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
>Indiana U. School of Medicine
>Indianapolis, IN
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: charlie chambers [SMTP:cchamber@mnic.net]
> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 1999 12:10 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Re: Inverted uterus
>
> As to compliance, I know that we all go to inordinate effort to make
>sure
> that patients get appropriate follow up and document this fact in
>the chart
> if they don't. But does anyone have first hand knowledge of someone
>losing a
> lawsuit when a patient failed to return for followup as prescribed
>by a
> practicioner. Seems to me that if the chart says return in 4 months
>for
> repeat pap, and the patient fails to return for a few years; a jury
>would
> have a hard time generating much sympathy for that patient without a
>number
> of registered letters being sent. Of course, I may be making a
>fundamental
> flaw in assuming a jury to be logical. Nonetheless, does anyone have
>any
> first hand knowledge of such an occurence?
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art fougner, md
SonoScan/Genetic Sciences
forest hills, ny
evsono@pipeline.com
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