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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.
There was a story some time back about a new housing development that was built, but had the restriction that no lawyers were allowed to buy any of the homes. The construction company feared that they would be sued if anything was wrong with any of the homes. This restriction was only discovered when a lawyer attempted to buy one of the homes. So he sued the company for discrimination.
Speaking about Seinfeld and doctors, I'll take a vet over an MD any day. I already go to the vet to get checked up. I find it's cheaper, the queue is shorter, and I get my coat brushed to a glossy shine after every visit.
Then we could start a blacklist of people who are posting blacklists of doctors with blacklists. Then and only then will we know if their blacklists are legitimate.
If the dollar is an "I owe you nothing", then the Euro is a "Who owes you nothing." - Doug Casey
Doctors are just vets who flunked out of vet school - could only handle one species.
A fine is a tax you pay for doing wrong and a tax is a fine you pay for doing all right.
What is insightful about the parent?
It breaks my pluginses, my precious!
Darl's a lawsuit-happy kind of guy, I wonder if he's been a plaintiff in any medical suits too? Why don't you all email him and ask?
I wouldn't worry about being sued by a lawyer who still rents. He/she has obviously not been that successful ;)
/kidding
Yeah, it's sad that 99% of lawyers can make the rest look so bad.
However, the builder's lawyer Thomas Clark said his client did not discriminate, but instead made a legitimate business decision.
"I think it's fairly clear and the courts have recognized that in business, people have the right make decisions based on economic factors," Clark said. I found this most amusing. Basically, the lawyer for the people refusing to sell to the other lawyer agreed that it was a good idea not to trust lawyers.
You know... it's a really sad state of affairs when you have the lowest form of profession on the planet, and they know it well enough to actually be able to publicly say it with a straight face.
No. Kelvin.
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This is Slashdot. If a temperature is not specified in degrees, it defaults to Kelvin.
Marxist evolution is just N generations away!
there are gonna be hordes of lawyers who are making their living off of them
True story:
I was at the medschool graduation ceremony of George Washington University 2 years ago. That year, the med school graduated about 150 students, and the law school graduated some 400-500+ students. The president of the university commented on this disparity as a joke and said something to the effect, "I hope there are enough MDs in the crowd to support the number of lawyers that we graduated." Jokes are funny because they always have some base of truth in them.
Linux at home
Yeah, that site wouldn't be making up or misinterperting statistics to push their own beliefs. Never.
:)
I call BS
My other car is first.
I got the diagnosis of cancer from that test, and they were able to save my life because of it. Was the trade of limping worth my life?
;-)
Well, you could have your life AND a million dollars, and only a limp in exchange
Freedom: "I won't!"
How are those immutable characteristics? Just look at Michael Jackson.
THE NERD IS THE COMPUTER.
There was a bit of a brouhaha about this a while ago, when patients got the right to see their own records.
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
Well, except that Kelvin is degress...