Re: Can someone explain the health care \'crisis\' to me?
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Mistakes happen in medicine as much as at your mechanic's, just with different results. We didn't sue because that would solve nothing.
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If a physician makes a negligent mistake that costs someone their health or life, should they not be held to the same standard as the mechanic who screwed up your car?
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Holding the doctor "to the same standard" is an attractive principle. Pretty. It sparkles. But a lawsuit would do little to change medical practice, at least not more than a talk with an administrator, "hey, here's what happened," which is what we did. Lawsuits will not change the quality of health care, they just inflate the size of corporate legal departments and butt covering measures. We did not see my father's death as an opportunity to win the lottery, though if a judge could order him back to life, we'd reconsider.
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Agree wholeheartedly, and thats the point I was trying to make earlier. These lawsuits just really don't provide the motivation for improvement that is intended. The reform needs to come from an institutional, procedural perspective. Its starting to.
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