This Makes Me Sick : The Big Payback

Jamesbrown Dr. Frank Bonnarens was sued for malpractice four times and each of the lawsuits were dismissed. So after a fifth suit was filed and later dropped, the Louisville orthopedic surgeon fought back‑-filing his own suit against the moonlighting state government attorney who had sued him in the fifth case. The jury recently found that attorney Walter Bedford Jr. sued Bonnarens for the sole purpose of harassing him into paying a settlement. Classy. Read [The Courier Journal]

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• Fretted over rising malpractice premiums?
• Signed a truly unbelievable medical liability waiver?
• Faced a frivolous lawsuit?

• Dealt with a doctor or a hospital who wouldn't take responsiblity for their actions?
• Practiced defensive medicine?

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You don't say...

"This election destroyed a popular Karl Rove myth. The truth is that trial attorneys are winning, attacks on trial attorneys are backfiring and opponents of the civil justice system are losing."
The CEO of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America said.
"We have discovered that virtually all patients are willing to sign a contract in which they agree not to sue their doctors on frivolous grounds."
Jeffrey Segal, M.D, a board-certified neurosurgeon and the founder and president of Medical Justice Services, Inc., said.
"Low-risk obstetrics has been done here for 60 years, but not anymore."
Carl Hanson, chief operating officer of the county-run Minidoka Memorial Hospital in southern Idaho hospital's, explained as they get out of the baby business. Read
"I have children, and I don't know where they're at."
Rosalinda Elison, a former patient at the UC Irvine Medical Center’s fertility clinic, said after learning that that her eggs and embryos had been stolen and implanted in another woman who then gave birth to twins.

Read more You Don't Say, here.

Crisis by numbers:

$4.6 million
New York state grants available to expand the use of electronic medical records. Such initiatives have been hailed nationally as a way to cut medication errors, save money and improve patient safety. LINK
$700,000
Amount raised by Fairness and Accountability in Insurance Reform to oppose malpractice limits in Arizona. LINK
$450,000
Amount the Arizona Medical Association says Arizonans for Access to Health Care has raised to decide whether to push for montetary limits on lawsuits. LINK

Read more CRISIS BY NUMBERS, here.

This Makes Me Sick

May 30, 2006

The Big Payback

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