The problem with health care decisions like this is they aren't easy.
For example if we start telling everyone whose lymph nodes are swollen they might die we're gonna cause an awful lot of stress on them, and their families. We know this will lead to undesirable medical outcomes like heart attacks. Half the human race has lymph nodes bigger then average, but very have Hodgkin's disease.
The question is does early treatment for the few outweigh the risk of heart attacks for the many?
Lawyers aren't actually part of the problem. This is proven by the fact that in the US there are 50 states, all 50 handle torts differently, all 50 have reformed their systems at least once to make it harder to sue, and still every goddamn Doctor in the goddamn country is paranoid about being sued.
I haven't done the math, but I'm pretty sure that if it was possible to create a legal system where you could sue your Doctor for being drunk, and other Doctors wouldn't go all paranoid about lawyers, one of the hundreds of systems we tried would have worked.
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The problem with health care decisions like this is they aren't easy. For example if we start telling everyone whose lymph nodes are swollen they might die we're gonna cause an awful lot of stress on them, and their families. We know this will lead to undesirable medical outcomes like heart attacks. Half the human race has lymph nodes bigger then average, but very have Hodgkin's disease. The question is does early treatment for the few outweigh the risk of heart attacks for the many?
Lawyers aren't actually part of the problem. This is proven by the fact that in the US there are 50 states, all 50 handle torts differently, all 50 have reformed their systems at least once to make it harder to sue, and still every goddamn Doctor in the goddamn country is paranoid about being sued. I haven't done the math, but I'm pretty sure that if it was possible to create a legal system where you could sue your Doctor for being drunk, and other Doctors wouldn't go all paranoid about lawyers, one of the hundreds of systems we tried would have worked.