Mass. High Court: Doctors Liable for Patient's Lessened Chance of Survival
East News • July 24, 2008
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that physicians can be held liable in a wrongful death action when their negligence lessens a patient's chance of survival.
The ruling, which for ...
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Subject: RE: RE: RE: Patient Responsibility
Posted On: July 25, 2008, 10:38 am CDT
Posted By: M
Comment:
I Do agree with you Reality - there are some who are not good at what they do & dismiss people. Again - you are the consumer and need to be proactive about yourself. Glad you got the opinions and are okay now - bad that they didn't diagnose you though.
Taking a line from Gill Fin - they are only human and humans make errors. Some are in professions where those errors can cost lives, others aren't.
Malpractice Insurance is there for errors, but should not include errors is diagnosing properly. Most diagnoses are best guesses and there are a battery of tests some go through and they still can't find a cause (I'm one of them). FYI - my Mom died @ 36 because her cancer was misdiagnosed When they went in to do the surgery they thought she needed they found the cancer and it spread rapidly after that. That was back in the early 70's. They didn't know then what they know now and they will know so much more years from now.
How much can we really hold the doctors accountable for - surgery errors, medicinal prescription errors, inappropriate conduct with patients and the list goes on. When we start to get into the grey areas - diagnoses, lack thereof, how long would a patient have lived if the doctor diagnosed him 10 years ago instead of 5, etc. it just hurts us and the practice of doctoring.
We as a society have to be really careful how " sue happy " we let people get. The courts need to start upholding the laws and not reinterpreting them. The buck has to stop somewhere or we soon will not be able to walk out of our homes without someone suing us because we looked at them wrong and hurt their feelings.
Subject: RE: RE: RE: Patient Responsibility
Taking a line from Gill Fin - they are only human and humans make errors. Some are in professions where those errors can cost lives, others aren't.
Malpractice Insurance is there for errors, but should not include errors is diagnosing properly. Most diagnoses are best guesses and there are a battery of tests some go through and they still can't find a cause (I'm one of them). FYI - my Mom died @ 36 because her cancer was misdiagnosed When they went in to do the surgery they thought she needed they found the cancer and it spread rapidly after that. That was back in the early 70's. They didn't know then what they know now and they will know so much more years from now.
How much can we really hold the doctors accountable for - surgery errors, medicinal prescription errors, inappropriate conduct with patients and the list goes on. When we start to get into the grey areas - diagnoses, lack thereof, how long would a patient have lived if the doctor diagnosed him 10 years ago instead of 5, etc. it just hurts us and the practice of doctoring.
We as a society have to be really careful how " sue happy " we let people get. The courts need to start upholding the laws and not reinterpreting them. The buck has to stop somewhere or we soon will not be able to walk out of our homes without someone suing us because we looked at them wrong and hurt their feelings.