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<blockquote data-quote="bluehdmc" data-source="post: 530253" data-attributes="member: 18471"><p>You've obviously haven't been one who's suffered from something that has gone "painfully wrong". I have and know others that have suffered from far worse, some of these "mistakes" end up requiring a lifetime of care. Who and how should that be paid for? </p><p> </p><p>I'll grant you the legal profession with all there ads about "getting the money you deserve" don't help.</p><p> </p><p>Doctors deal in a "life and death" world, and are compensated quite well for it. Shouldn't they have to pay for their mistakes when they "screw-up"?</p><p> </p><p>I spent a Friday evening in an emergency room waiting while my doctor was paged, he never responded to the page. The hospital ran some tests and sent me home. On Monday morning at 9am the hospital called me and told me it was very important I call my doctor that they were faxing the results of the tests to him. </p><p> </p><p>I called the doctors office and he wasn't in, he returned my call a couple of hours later. I explained what went on Fri evening, and asked if he had looked at the test results yet and he replied he had not.</p><p> </p><p>On Wed the doctors office called me and referred me to an infectious disease doctor. I had a SEPSIS infection. This was what showed up in the tests done Fri evening. I mentioned to the person on the phone that the hospital had called me Mon morning, (and had made it sound urgent to me) and said they were faxing the results over. The person from the doctors office replied that the had just recieved them. </p><p> </p><p>Now someone had lied to me. But who? The hospital? The doctor's office? Or was it just the doctor was too involved with looking at his golf magazine and contemplating the new clubs he was thinking of buying? Or was it the Porsche ad that had caught his attention, and he didn't look at the test results until Wed?</p><p> </p><p>I recovered, after a course of antibiotics, but people have died from sepsis infections. After that and a few other incidents of either inattention or ineptness, I have lost all respect for doctors. So if they complain about malpractice costs, maybe they should pay more attention to their work. Also maybe they should not cover for each other the way they do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bluehdmc, post: 530253, member: 18471"] You've obviously haven't been one who's suffered from something that has gone "painfully wrong". I have and know others that have suffered from far worse, some of these "mistakes" end up requiring a lifetime of care. Who and how should that be paid for? I'll grant you the legal profession with all there ads about "getting the money you deserve" don't help. Doctors deal in a "life and death" world, and are compensated quite well for it. Shouldn't they have to pay for their mistakes when they "screw-up"? I spent a Friday evening in an emergency room waiting while my doctor was paged, he never responded to the page. The hospital ran some tests and sent me home. On Monday morning at 9am the hospital called me and told me it was very important I call my doctor that they were faxing the results of the tests to him. I called the doctors office and he wasn't in, he returned my call a couple of hours later. I explained what went on Fri evening, and asked if he had looked at the test results yet and he replied he had not. On Wed the doctors office called me and referred me to an infectious disease doctor. I had a SEPSIS infection. This was what showed up in the tests done Fri evening. I mentioned to the person on the phone that the hospital had called me Mon morning, (and had made it sound urgent to me) and said they were faxing the results over. The person from the doctors office replied that the had just recieved them. Now someone had lied to me. But who? The hospital? The doctor's office? Or was it just the doctor was too involved with looking at his golf magazine and contemplating the new clubs he was thinking of buying? Or was it the Porsche ad that had caught his attention, and he didn't look at the test results until Wed? I recovered, after a course of antibiotics, but people have died from sepsis infections. After that and a few other incidents of either inattention or ineptness, I have lost all respect for doctors. So if they complain about malpractice costs, maybe they should pay more attention to their work. Also maybe they should not cover for each other the way they do. [/QUOTE]
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