Some random musings we found while perusing the wide world o' blogs
Aggravated DocSurg says: "Whenever I see an award in a malpractice case that is this high [he's talking about $8.25 million in Fort Myers], I remind myself to continuously express to patients one of the basic tenets of life: Bad things happen. Sometimes, they happen despite the best efforts of everyone involved. Surgery, like life, offers no guarantees."
Callous? The truth?
GruntDoc keyed us into this interesting legal move [via Overlawyered]. Seems the the former president of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, Kim Presbrey, has started a new malpractice insurance company, Doctors Direct, focusing on neurosurgeons and heart surgeons.
Get in where the getting is good.
And lastly, we've been meaning to mention a site under the name, My Surgery Nightmare. Is the proof in the wide-eyes?
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PS Check out the 2006 Medical Weblog Awards. Lots of links to cool med-related sites, from docs to patients and everything in between. You can even nominate ThisMakesMeSick for "Best Health Policies/Ethics Weblog." (Insert shameless plug)
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Posted by: gold party | March 21, 2011 at 01:12 PM
Bad things happen. Sometimes, they happen despite the best efforts of everyone involved.
Posted by: vibram five fingers | April 15, 2011 at 11:07 PM
they happen despite the best efforts of everyone involved. Surgery, like life, offers no guarantees
Posted by: vibram five fingers | June 02, 2011 at 12:11 AM