A physical exam FOUR (4) years earlier and the doctor is liable for this kid dropping dead? How much cocaine or other potential drugs had he consumed in those four years?
Without the second test being performed due to the kid not showing up, I do not see how a jury can award a DIME to a family.
Sure, it is sad, but it should not be stuck to the doctor and I am no big fan of doctors…
Terrible. The recent JOKE health care bill that passed does NOT even begin to address wacky attorneys scamming insurers for every dime possible regardless of liability so when all private health insurers go out of business intentionally by covering cancer victims AFTER they realize and are diagnosed, THEN they will pay the premium, the GOVT. is all that is left and we are ALL on medicare???
REPEAL THIS JOKE AND VOTE REPUBLICAN IN NOVEMBER 2010 OR THIS COUNTRY IS DOOMED TO FINANCIAL RUIN WITH THIS WACK JOB IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
Bob, you might want to read up on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy before going on your rant about an exam 4 years earlier. We also don’t know much of anything about what transpired with the doctor other than the missed test. Also, since you apparently have the full text of the “reform” bills being passed, could you please share with the rest of us?
Leave it to the morons who reside in Suffolk County to throw money away on a no liability case. If the did failed to follow his doctors recommendation for more testing it’s his problem. Doctors aren’t baby sitters for 18 year olds. Now this gratuitous payment will show up on the doctor’s record and his med mal premiums will skyrocket even higher than they were.
The doctor should have put a restiction on the student to forbid his play on the college team. That’s what team physicals are for…….the doc shouldn’t have past him UNLESS the second test was not for a suspected underlying condition.
Assume the doctor made a mistake, a student died, who might have received treatment and lived a long life. The real issue is the amount of the award, not the finding of liability. The parents have a true emotional loss, but they are not entitled to this much money as compensation. A child is not an investment.
ok, problem is the reward and amount of liability that this doctor should or should not have. first of all, if there was a second sched test, why did he signoff on the first sheet. then, if person was supposed to have been at the second appointment, he’s just as responsible for his health. there is a reason for a test and if you don’t show, well, who fault is it? afterall are you not an adult? over 18! in the military you would find up before the captain for an NJP or Article 15 at the worst. your chief would have made sure you had the time off to go.
now, let’s get this straight, if a person dies from a medical condition and they thought the liability is the doctors and only giving 1.6 million, why is it that a family whose house was woth 250k and got 58 million. um…um… where’s the value in that? i thought a life is worth more. where does our society think in terms of compensation in money wise? you can’t but you have to put limits somewhere.
now, what if the kid had been treated and died anyways? are you going to blame the person prescribing the medicine? i am sorry for their loss, but if it was 4 years later, what happened between then and now? how many other doctors were supposed to have seen this young lad?
A physical exam FOUR (4) years earlier and the doctor is liable for this kid dropping dead? How much cocaine or other potential drugs had he consumed in those four years?
Without the second test being performed due to the kid not showing up, I do not see how a jury can award a DIME to a family.
Sure, it is sad, but it should not be stuck to the doctor and I am no big fan of doctors…
Terrible. The recent JOKE health care bill that passed does NOT even begin to address wacky attorneys scamming insurers for every dime possible regardless of liability so when all private health insurers go out of business intentionally by covering cancer victims AFTER they realize and are diagnosed, THEN they will pay the premium, the GOVT. is all that is left and we are ALL on medicare???
REPEAL THIS JOKE AND VOTE REPUBLICAN IN NOVEMBER 2010 OR THIS COUNTRY IS DOOMED TO FINANCIAL RUIN WITH THIS WACK JOB IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
And this is why healthcare costs are out of control in the US.
Bob, you might want to read up on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy before going on your rant about an exam 4 years earlier. We also don’t know much of anything about what transpired with the doctor other than the missed test. Also, since you apparently have the full text of the “reform” bills being passed, could you please share with the rest of us?
Leave it to the morons who reside in Suffolk County to throw money away on a no liability case. If the did failed to follow his doctors recommendation for more testing it’s his problem. Doctors aren’t baby sitters for 18 year olds. Now this gratuitous payment will show up on the doctor’s record and his med mal premiums will skyrocket even higher than they were.
The doctor should have put a restiction on the student to forbid his play on the college team. That’s what team physicals are for…….the doc shouldn’t have past him UNLESS the second test was not for a suspected underlying condition.
http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf
there ya go MIke. Maybe you should take a cue from your own words.
Assume the doctor made a mistake, a student died, who might have received treatment and lived a long life. The real issue is the amount of the award, not the finding of liability. The parents have a true emotional loss, but they are not entitled to this much money as compensation. A child is not an investment.
ok, problem is the reward and amount of liability that this doctor should or should not have. first of all, if there was a second sched test, why did he signoff on the first sheet. then, if person was supposed to have been at the second appointment, he’s just as responsible for his health. there is a reason for a test and if you don’t show, well, who fault is it? afterall are you not an adult? over 18! in the military you would find up before the captain for an NJP or Article 15 at the worst. your chief would have made sure you had the time off to go.
now, let’s get this straight, if a person dies from a medical condition and they thought the liability is the doctors and only giving 1.6 million, why is it that a family whose house was woth 250k and got 58 million. um…um… where’s the value in that? i thought a life is worth more. where does our society think in terms of compensation in money wise? you can’t but you have to put limits somewhere.
now, what if the kid had been treated and died anyways? are you going to blame the person prescribing the medicine? i am sorry for their loss, but if it was 4 years later, what happened between then and now? how many other doctors were supposed to have seen this young lad?