Comments on: Medicine and the Law - Part 3: Causation http://brainblogger.com/2008/05/18/medicine-and-the-law-part-3/ Topics from multidimensional biopsychosocial perspectives. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:44:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Medicine and the Law - Part 6: Third Party Liability | Brain Blogger http://brainblogger.com/2008/05/18/medicine-and-the-law-part-3/#comment-293545 Medicine and the Law - Part 6: Third Party Liability | Brain Blogger Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:23:05 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/?p=891#comment-293545 [...] to wind down. We’ve covered lots of topics including contract and consent, malpractice, causation, informed consent, and abandonment. Now we will talk about third-party [...] [...] to wind down. We’ve covered lots of topics including contract and consent, malpractice, causation, informed consent, and abandonment. Now we will talk about third-party [...]

]]> By: gluck7104 http://brainblogger.com/2008/05/18/medicine-and-the-law-part-3/#comment-289764 gluck7104 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:40:25 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/?p=891#comment-289764 Thank you for expressing well ,my sentiments Exactly !!! It's been my experience that many of the doctors in positions of power, abuse thier patients mentally. It's as though they aren't treating a ill/medicated person at all. I cannot believe that when a 'dr' makes an error,he and the media tell the public to be informed consumers, that we the patient must take responsibility for our own health outcomes. If I paid my mechanic to fix my car, I'd expect that he knew what he was doing and beyond bringing my car to him(because I know only basics) It is HE tha better know HOW TO FIX MY CAR and not my fault as a consumer that HE doesn't . If my car doesn't get fived. I sue for my money back. Why do doctors foist thier lack of skill on the ILL patient??? Thank you for expressing well ,my sentiments Exactly !!! It’s been my experience that many of the doctors in positions of power, abuse thier patients mentally. It’s as though they aren’t treating a ill/medicated person at all. I cannot believe that when a ‘dr’ makes an error,he and the media tell the public to be informed consumers, that we the patient must take responsibility for our own health outcomes. If I paid my mechanic to fix my car, I’d expect that he knew what he was doing and beyond bringing my car to him(because I know only basics) It is HE tha better know HOW TO FIX MY CAR and not my fault as a consumer that HE doesn’t . If my car doesn’t get fived. I sue for my money back. Why do doctors foist thier lack of skill on the ILL patient???

]]> By: Medicine and the Law - Part 5: Abandonment | Brain Blogger http://brainblogger.com/2008/05/18/medicine-and-the-law-part-3/#comment-269955 Medicine and the Law - Part 5: Abandonment | Brain Blogger Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:56:42 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/?p=891#comment-269955 [...] previously talked about the contract and consent. Then we moved on to medical malpractice and causation. Finally we discussed informed consent. Now we move on to [...] [...] previously talked about the contract and consent. Then we moved on to medical malpractice and causation. Finally we discussed informed consent. Now we move on to [...]

]]> By: Ida http://brainblogger.com/2008/05/18/medicine-and-the-law-part-3/#comment-178961 Ida Mon, 19 May 2008 18:23:43 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/?p=891#comment-178961 True, the anesthetists comes and asks the patient to sign a form which warns them about any possible consequence of their surgery. What the doctor doesn't realize(why I have no idea, but some practitioners do not seem to understand the way humans think) is the patient has just had their IV put in, been given pain medication and some sort of relaxant, and most likely does not have the energy to read the long document they get to sign. That's one part of it. The other part is when a doctor purposely puts a patient through needless tests, because he/she happens to be getting free research out of it. (This has happened to me) The doctor is putting the patient through much pain and agony all for nothing! It can get quite ridiculous! There is another opportunity for a patient to sue. The next would be a surgeon cutting a body part "by accident" and damaging the patient indefinitely. I have been through each of these situations, and more, but I have never sued. It wasn't because I am rich and didn't need the money, it was because I was a nice person and therefore did not want my neurosurgeon's premium to go up. I do think in certain situations, the doctor should pay, and sometimes I look back and wish I made my doctor pay--he has since injured a few other patients. Maybe I could have prevented that. You are only looking at one side of the argument because you are a physician of some sort, but next time you have to see a patient think of how you screwing things up affects their entire lives. True, the anesthetists comes and asks the patient to sign a form which warns them about any possible consequence of their surgery. What the doctor doesn’t realize(why I have no idea, but some practitioners do not seem to understand the way humans think) is the patient has just had their IV put in, been given pain medication and some sort of relaxant, and most likely does not have the energy to read the long document they get to sign. That’s one part of it.

The other part is when a doctor purposely puts a patient through needless tests, because he/she happens to be getting free research out of it. (This has happened to me) The doctor is putting the patient through much pain and agony all for nothing! It can get quite ridiculous! There is another opportunity for a patient to sue.

The next would be a surgeon cutting a body part “by accident” and damaging the patient indefinitely.

I have been through each of these situations, and more, but I have never sued. It wasn’t because I am rich and didn’t need the money, it was because I was a nice person and therefore did not want my neurosurgeon’s premium to go up. I do think in certain situations, the doctor should pay, and sometimes I look back and wish I made my doctor pay–he has since injured a few other patients. Maybe I could have prevented that.

You are only looking at one side of the argument because you are a physician of some sort, but next time you have to see a patient think of how you screwing things up affects their entire lives.

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