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Doctors' Animated Cartoon Takes Medical Malpractice Debate To New Low
Category: Desperate Defendants
Turn off your brain and watch how one group of doctors tries to protect patients now. (Hint - they will not be improving the quality of your care.) Charlatans' Web, "a web-cartoon by Protect Patients Now (a project of a 230,000 medical specialist strong outfit) calls out lawyers as the reason that malpractice rates skyrockets, doctors flee and health care options deteriorate. Is it really this simple?" This Makes Me Sick comments on the newest low in the national debate over medical malpractice. The cartoon can be watched at Protect Patients Now. I may be greedy, but I see very little redeeming social value in this artistic creation. My cartoon, which is in production, is Ninja Lawyers Against The Evil Empire.
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Well, actually, friend, I have personally seen this happen many times. In Virginia, a surgeon group dissolved (in 2002) because their malpractice carrier went out of buisness, and they couldn't find anyone from whom to purchase another policy. The group split up and scattered to other states. In West Virginia, around that same time, the entire department of Gastroenterology at the teaching hospital at the State University all left at the same time, effectively disbanding the entire department. The teaching hospital is the place of last resort for many of a State's poor residents, and that move left them without any other recourse. I know of no situation where malpractice rates forced any lawyer out of buisness.
Posted by: Jill at December 31, 2005 08:10 AM