By: Matt
Let me be clear on one thing, Whitecoat. I think you have a tough job, and I think you should be paid well for it. If we disagree on the politics of tort reform, and its effects, that doesn’t change my...
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Juries side with the physician 80% of the time-often in the face of true negligence. The insurance industry knows this-this leads to frivilous defense and extremely high litigation cost. It often...
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“Juries side with the physician 80% of the time-often in the face of true negligence.” Proof please. Do you think providers and the insurance companies want to drag things out and be involved. Clear...
View ArticleBy: Kim Bunker RN BSN
I see the passion streaming from the providers MD’s and RN’s and I am still so proud to have the title of RN. I have lived many years of my life in Level 1 acute care facilities at the bedside and...
View ArticleBy: Michelle, RN
Matt- perhaps you could provide a link to the study that was done that supports the fact that defense wins 80% of verdicts? I have a pdf of the report but no link. Chip: “Do you think providers and the...
View ArticleBy: Max Kennerly
Nurses aren’t named because they don’t have separate insurance policies. But they can be named and, if found liable, their personal assets can be levied just like a doctor’s. You wrote: “Do you think...
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Michelle RN, Yes, the defense wins 80 plus percent of the time. What I have issue is your statement “even with true negligence”. There is not basis for stating “true negligence” As a provider I do have...
View ArticleBy: Michelle, RN
Here is what I have learned from my suits: People with bad disease processes die. Nothing could of been done to reverse it. No amount of system and procedure analysis could affect that. Agreed....
View ArticleBy: No emergencies — just emergency physicians, MedCity Weekend Rounds June...
[…] — the author of which is going through his own malpractice lawsuit — has picked up and run with the discussion we started over whether emergency physicians deserve the civil immunity that […]
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