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'They Can Sue, But They Can't Hide'
An anonymous reader writes "The New York Times (free reg's yada, yada) has this article about Texas doctors running an online blacklist of patients who have sued. The searchable database is at doctorsknow.us. Nice to know that you can get blacklisted for suing the doctor that caused massive brain damage to your kid (and winning)." To add a plaintiff to the database, membership was not always required.
Doctors in America kill over 180,000 people every year due to malpractice. That's the number of people KILLED, and it does not include all the people who have had the wrong limb cut off or were severely injured due to negligence.
These malpractice lawsuits come because someone is grievously injured due to negligence, or is killed, by incompetent doctors. Ambulance chasers only show up after the damage has been done.
Think about that before you start busting on patients for suing.
--- Grow a pair, liberals... stop letting the Republicans bully you!
I guarantee that if someone complained against the same develoer of discrimination against their being gay/lesbian (which AFAIK is not included in any of the above) the outcome would have been different.
Granted, I'd be nervous selling/renting/etc. to a lawyer ... but why should I be worred if I understand the agreement and have complied with my part of it? I understand the developer being nervous, but the developer is just as suspect of having something to hide (like the shoddy work that oh-so-many developers are known for these days).
Que Deus te de em dobro o que me desejas
[May God give you double that which you wish for me]
May be brain damage caused on Slashdot editor.
You rant how information need freedom, Timothy, then you say I have "massive brain stroke" or whatever when useful database used to spot phoney neck-brace "whiplash" asshole who sues you and your company. You cross the line with this remark and please apologize for offending this community.
I suggest you read Slashdot
"How can you blame the doctor for this? The hospital and its procedures are usually to blame for these kinds of infections"
I blame both. The hospital for having sloppy procedures and the doctors for not caring enough about the patient to do the right thing. I also blame the doctors for not acting soon enough to prevent a double amputation.
BTW this had nothing to do with following directions. The man was in the hospital being (supposedly) tended to by professionals.
"It's also possible that doctors will just stop practicing medicine because of people with a chip on their shoulder like yours. "
Great. Fantastic. That would be an acceptable outcome. They should go into another field where they won't ruin peoples lives.
"But unless you know EXACTLY where the infection came from and how, you have to consider it just as likely that this guy already had the infection when he came into the hospital, and it got much worse because his body could no longer fight it off."
Yea right. Other then a weak heart there was nothing wrong with him. Even if he had an infection it was the job of the doctors to detect it and certainly take care of it before it got so bad they had to cut both of his legs off.
The best way to support the US war effort is to continue buying American products.
Ok then. Let's not sue the doctors. Lets put them in jail instead. That would be acceptable to me. That way the hospital still has their money and doctors are not hurting other people.
Is that acceptable to you? Or are you seriously proposing that nobody be held responsible fo rtheir actions?
BTW the purpose of suing is not to get his legs back. It's to make up for lost income and pain for the rest of your life. We put people to death in this country not because anybody believes that it will resurrect the murder victim or un-rape a woman but because we believe that people who commit crimes should be punished.
The best way to support the US war effort is to continue buying American products.
"Has it ever occured to you that this might not be "their negligence" or "their fault"? That sometimes shit just happens?"
Really? Shit just happens? You go into the hospital without an infection and lose both of your legs and perhaps your life because shit just happens? What are the chances of that?
I'll put it another way. What is more likely? Shit just happened and guy just got on infection because some germs randomly floating in the air landed on both of the guys legs. Or maybe some doctor did not disinfect his hands or utensils properly? Which is more likely?
Even worse once the "shit just happened" not one doctor recognized or treated the infection till it got so bad that they had to cut his legs off.
Shit just happened indeed.
The best way to support the US war effort is to continue buying American products.