Greedy Trial Lawyer
Physician Mindsets Create Greedy Trial Lawyer Mindsets
Category: Seeing Clearly Now
Richard L. Reece, MD, posting at MEDINNOVATIONBLOG, has identified what he calls five Physician Mindsets.
Five Physician Mindsets and Trends
Mindsets work like fixed stars in our heads. Holding on to them, our mind drifting like a ship in an ocean of information, finds orientation. They keep it on course and guide it safely to its destination.Physician Mindset Number One - Physicians on the ground prefer incremental changes through expanding coverage through tax incentives and market-driven changes rather than through a single-payer system.
Physician Mindset Number Two - Physicians are adapting to downward pressure on their incomes and harassing rules and regulations by becoming hospital employees.
Physician Mindset Number Three - Physicians regard consumer-driven care with skepticism and tend to be reactive rather than proactive in adapting to change.
[For Mindsets Four and Five you will have to read Dr. Reece's original article.]
One Physician Mindset observed by me (and probably every other trial lawyer who has ever deposed a defendant physician in a medical malpractice case) is: Physicians do not believe anything they do is ever a breach of the accepted standard of care. They believe whatever they do or fail to do is just part of this thing called the practice of medicine.
This leads to a Greedy Trial Lawyer Mindset: Greedy trial lawyers believe many defendant docs are arrogant bastards who are incapable of admitting a mistake.
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