WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for January, 2000: Re: Malpractice vs. Mistake~Drs. and Andrea.....

Re: Malpractice vs. Mistake~Drs. and Andrea.....

From: Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 31 Jan 2000 19:28:52 -0600 (CST)

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At Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Robin wrote: >
>At Mon, 31 Jan 2000, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
>>
>>>At Thu, 21 Jan 1999, AMD wrote:
>>>>And to add more fuel to the fire: When does malpractice cross the line
>>>>to criminal liability? Should a doctor be arrested and charged for
>>>>failing to provide appropriate care?
>>>>
>>>>Andrea
>
>Andrea,
>
>Dr. McIntosh gave an excellent example...here's another one....what
>about the Dr. in NY that carved his initials, "AZ" into the belly of a
>woman that he just preformed a C/S on. I would think that would
>definitely cross the line from malpractice to criminal liability,
>regardless of his excuse of a "frontal lobe disorder" of which I don't
>buy for a second, but that is just my opinion.
>
>Docs, what are your thoughts....would that be considered criminal
>liability?? If y'all are uncomfortable with answering that one, I
>definitely understand!
>
>--
>Robin
>

In that I'm not a lawyer, I can't say what's criminal vs. other stuff (that's lawyer talk for ..... other stuff).

Frontal lobe problems are truly terrible but I have no idea if this is truly the problem.

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Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. FACOG, FACS
Great Neck, New York

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