Greedy Trial Lawyer
Greedy Trial Lawyers Don't Beg
Category: Torts For Our Time
Lee Tilson, posting at TortDeform, claims to be a trial lawyer. He may be a trial lawyer, but he is definitely not a greedy trial lawyer. Therefore, I am not sure if he is kind of trial lawyer I would want to handle my medical malpractice case.
After reading Lee's plea to put himself out of business you can decide whether he is spending too much time trying to reform the medical-drug-pharmacy complex instead of using his advocate's weapons to extract the maximum compensation for each victim of its stupidity. I say trial lawyers need to do their job the old fashioned way, one case at a time.
A Trial Lawyer Begs to Have Less Business
I repeat my offer to all readers of this blog. Work with me. Make patient care safer (send an e mail to me at keeppatientssafe AT gmail DOT com).Join in the effort to improve patient safety. Whatever your position is on the tort system or tort reform, no one wants patients to be harmed. Let's learn what we can from whatever source we can. Let's improve patient care.
Let's make the tort system irrelevant by making it unnecessary to use it.
Let's eliminate the torts. It worked for anesthesia, reducing anesthesia accidents dramatically.
I am a trial lawyer. If you really want to hurt trial lawyers, eliminate the negligent injuries. Simple as that. I will work with you to put me out of business.
Personally, I am not working with anyone to put me out of business.
Some of the alarming facts from Lee's post:
An article in today's news based on recent statistics from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the nation's leading authority on medical safety, ought to shock the conscience of even the most ardent tort "reformer.""The non-profit institute studied injury rates at hospitals and estimated that there are 40 to 50 "incidents of harm" for every 100 patients, about 15 million harm events each year at U.S. hospitals. The injuries include everything from pressure ulcers, more commonly known as bedsores, to surgical complications and infections."
"Two years after the Institute for Healthcare Improvement launched a campaign to reduce the thousands of deaths caused by such hospital failures as medication errors and infections, the same leaders on Tuesday launched a second phase aimed at cutting hospital-induced injuries by 5 million over the next two years.
"The non-profit institute studied injury rates at hospitals and estimated that there are 40 to 50 "incidents of harm" for every 100 patients, about 15 million harm events each year at U.S. hospitals. The injuries include everything from pressure ulcers, more commonly known as bedsores, to surgical complications and infections."
My estimate would be that over 14 million of the victims of these harm events are not receiving justice in the form of compensation for the injuries sustained. Obtaining that compensation for each victim would be the right mission for a trial lawyer.
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