Paranoid doctors
The Jobbing Doctor is back from his holidays:
So I go back to work tomorrow, and one of the first things I will do is look at who has died in the practice whilst I have been away... I will hope that none of them have died unexpectedly, or due to any decision I have made. I will also look into my inbox to see if there are any letters from patients or relatives accusing me of incompetence or negligence. Or official looking letters from solicitors.Phew! I thought it was just me. So I can stop my medication. And thank God we don't live in America, or we might all be gettting a call from Dallas.
Every GP will say, if they are honest, that that is the first thing they do when they return from holiday.
Tomorrow is another day
Labels: ambulance chasing, GP paranoia, medical malpractice
7 Comments:
It's a popular meme at the moment to keep staing that Americans spend twice as much as us on healthcare. it would be interesting to know what percentage of that spend goes on indemnity insurance, malpractice actions etc. I'm sure that I read somewhere that the average American GP spends some $10,000 per week on professional insurance - but I could have completely misremembered. Anybody know the actual figures?
Just about everyone agrees that rapacious trial lawyers cause billions of dollars to be wasted in USA health care. Yet Obama's proposed 'reforms' do nothing to correct this. Why not? Well, the lawyers are one of the largest contributors to the Democratic Party, but maybe that's just a coincidence.
ZT
the video tell much more about the governments role in the health sector.....
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Dr Crippen
How would you respond to a patient whose GP had been giving him Steroid eyedrops on repeat prescription for 11 years without reviewing him and who was not under the care of an Opthalmologist, who now has bilateral steroid induced glaucoma and steroid induced cataracts?
American-style personal injury law. Soon to jump the pond and infest your country as well.
For this I apologize.
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"Every GP will say, if they are honest, that that is the first thing they do when they return from holiday."
I'm a FP (GP equivalent)in the USA and it is the same here!
To Pogo, the actual cost of malpractice insurance is high in many specialties but not for FPs unless performing obstetrics. I quit OB several years ago as I was losing money due to the extra insurance costing more than I was paid for the delivery (my patients were usually in the Medicaid/welfare system). The specter of legal action taints every patient encounter and leads to excess testing and unnecessary procedures.
A young physician friend of mine was fired for not ordering enough tests. To date shes not sure if it was because of the referral revenue the group gets from testing facilities, or the threat of litigation possible if test insurance isn't being practiced. The problem is in the courts and societies view of the extent of a persons liability, not with the basic premise of social or privatized medicine.
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