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Category: In Your Face

Hoisting a Save Your Neurons banner a medical blogger who apparently enjoys his relatively high-paying job is throwing smoke grenades at the civil justice system.

There may be a neuron or two loose in the brain of Dr. Kevin Pho at Kevin, M.D. He remains in a stale and out-dated language mode continuing to label doctors as victims in medical malpractice claims, to deny the reality of grief, sorrow and mental suffering and to blame trial lawyers for encouraging the medical profession to move to Texas. (Doesn't he know lawyers for justice are now representing the real victims of medical malpractice?)

In the midst of his pathetic, time-worn diatribe Kevin assures us that doctors will always have a relatively high-paying job. At least we know what occupies most of his neurons.

In Kevin's own words:

Lawyers win again, patients lose

Illinois has found another way to victimize physicians:

Kate McDonough, spokesperson for the Illinois College of Emergency Physicians, said the new amended legislation allows a jury in a civil trial to award damages for grief, sorrow and mental suffering. The original legislation prohibited jurors in a civil trial from considering those three factors, she said.

McDonough said the new bill also deleted language limiting the amount of damages that could be awarded.

I can't really say that doctors really lose here - they can simply move to a malpractice-friendly state like Texas and continue working. The patients however, are left with a lack of physician access, making them the ultimate losers in this scenario.

Update:
Happyman puts it even more bluntly in the comments below. The runaway tort system really hurts patients more, not doctors:

And it's much more of a problem for PATIENTS than doctors - we will always have a relatively high-paying job, but if you are in a car wreck & need a craniotomy, blame your local trial lawyers for ending up a vegetable, as threatening or suing your local ER for not getting a neurosurgeon in time isn't gonna save your neurons.

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