Yeah, we definitely have too many lawyers in our country. What we need are more doctors like these fuckheads who murdered 4 separate patients by transplanting rabies-infected organs into their bodies.
Yeah, we definitely have too many lawyers in our country. What we need are more doctors like these fuckheads who murdered 4 separate patients by transplanting rabies-infected organs into their bodies.
When medical malpractice lawyers screw up, it impacts the six-figure salaries of doctors. When doctors screw up, people die.
Here's one surgeon in the UK who killed 3 people before facing manslaughter charges. I wonder what would have happened if his first victim's family had retained a lawyer and sued the bastard into the ground. Do you think his next 2 victims might be alive today?
One of the victims' relatives said of the doctor in this article, "I always found him a rather arrogant man who just didn’t recognise his own incompetence."
The state of New Jersey publishes information about doctors who commit malpractice. Article. This despite objections by, guess who, The Medical Society of New Jersey on behalf of all doctors. Am I the only one who finds it ironic that doctors complain about too many lawsuits at the same time they're trying to protect provably guilty and incompetent doctors who injured patients? Is that not unfuckingbelievable?
Anyway, the website in question is http://www.njdoctorlist.com/ although it's not up and running just yet.
Doctors allow patient to die, and so do emergency room surgeons
In one of the biggest loads of crap I've ever seen, our favorite website Overlawyered reports Fox News to claim that "Neurosurgeons are reducing their litigation risk by refusing to see emergency patients, and the results can be fatal." I'm sure every one of those surgeons is in the profession because he "wants to help mankind" too, eh?
Meanwhile, Rebecca Stephens discovered a lump in her breast and promptly reported it to her doctors. They told her not to worry. She still had the lump 6 months later, and they told her not to worry again. Two months later, she went back again and complained of back pain. "OOPS!", said her doctors. "You have cancer in your hip, and cancer in your spine. Oh and one more thing, you have breast cancer too."
Oh well. It sucks for her, but at least we have neurosurgeons willing to stand up for principles and boycott emergency room patients to lower their insurance costs so their incomes don't get unfairly reduced from $530,000 a year to $495,000 a year.
Convicted of manslaughter? Come practice medicine in New Jersey!
The like-minded (and better organized) Malpractice blog discusses the case of Dr. Richard Kaul of New Jersey. Convicted of manslaughter in England, the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners allowed him to continue practicing medicine.
I know of lawyers who had their licenses to practice law taken away because of manslaughter convictions (stemming from car accidents in which the defendant was drinking and driving). Yet here is a doctor who killed someone through his own professional incompetence, who in the year 2003 the state of New Jersey believes is good enough to continue practicing medicine.
Sex offender doctors are allowed to continue practicing
Well-known fact: doctors commit sex crimes. Nothing unusual about that, right? People in all professions commit sex crimes, after all.
Here's what is unusual, though. Unlike other professions, doctors have incredible powers over the bodies and emotional vulnerabilities of people. And in this study done a few years ago, 40% of doctors who were actually disciplined for committing sex offenses were allowed to continue practicing.
I don't think "overlawyering" is the problem. I think it's "overlobbying".
Doctor assaults patients. Wanna consult him? State: "Go ahead!"
Dr. Kevin Elliott, M.D. (a graduate of the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine), has pleaded guilty to assault for attacking 4 people, 3 of whom were his own patients. He also has a criminal history of domestic violence. Despite his history of domestic violence, he was permitted to continue practice medicine. But that's not the best part. The best part is that Dr. Elliott is still practicing medicine as I write this.
Poor doctors. They have it so rough in our legal system, don't they?
Charles Eugene Breen, M.D., a psychiatrist, put his tongue into the mouth of his patient, rubbed aloe over her body, conducted therapy sessions with her sitting on his lap, among other things. He also subjected her to various forms of powerful medication without proper documentation. The patient was apparently suffering from multiple personality disorder.
This case alone pisses me off more than any "frivolous cheeseburger case" I've read about in Overlawyered. Get your priorities in order, folks.
Dr. Stephen Adler was convicted of Indecent Solicitation of a Minor. I guess the best Internet porn his doctor's salary could buy just wasn't good enough for him. I wonder how many parents sent their little children to be treated by him before he was convicted?
That's right. Go to Dr. Nasser Ahmed, M.D., for medical help, come back a victim of sexual abuse:
The third-degree sexual abuse charges involve sexual touching without consent; the more serious second-degree charges involve inability to give consent, in this case because the patients were under their doctor's control, law enforcement officials said. Both women were conscious during the incidents, the authorities said.
This blog was inspired by two other blogs: Overlawyered and RangelMD.com. Together, the two of these blogs propogate the load of crap that American society is sinking under the weight of "too many lawyers and too many lawsuits."
Dr. Chris Rangel is, not surprisingly, a doctor. He refers to lawyers as "villains". He says, "The legal system in this country is designed for winning and loosing [sic] and not necessarily for discovering the truth." The good doctor then gives us a brilliant idea: all doctors should refuse to give non-emergent treatment to lawyers. In his own words:
... we should be blacklisting trial lawyers, especially those who often file merit-less cases and blatantly abuse the system. In a non-emergent situation, physicians, like other professionals, have the right to refuse service. Unlike the services of a lawyer (only needed by 20-30% of population in some surveys) almost everyone will require the services of a doctor at some point in their lives. If enough trial lawyers suddenly find it very difficult to get in to see a physician then maybe . . just maybe . . they will begin to understand how their frivolous lawsuits and massive jury awards are beginning to significantly restrict health care access in many parts of the country.
Then again, maybe not. I think that many physicians would actually be worried that these same lawyers would sue them for "profession discrimination" for just as to the hammer everything is a nail, to the lawyer the solution to any problem is a lawsuit. Still, I believe that such refusal of service is ethical as long as it is not an emergent situation and should be every physician's duty to send a message to the trial lawyer industry that we will not tolerate such an abusive and damaging system (because, God knows, we are not getting any help in the form of federal legislative reforms anytime soon).
Great idea, doc.
Overlawyered utilizes a different strategy to advocate a similar anti-lawyer position, and it's quite simple: look for wacky news stories about lawsuits that seem outrageous, and parade them around to show the world how America is supposedly drowning under a sea of litigation.
The combination of the propoganda published by both of these blogs is what inspired this one. Collecting articles on the Net can't be all that hard, can it? So this blog will do the same, by focusing on articles that showcase bad doctors. For every lawyer Overlawyered can point to that filed a nonsensical lawsuit, I'll find you a doctor who nearly killed someone. But what makes me especially mad about the arrogance of doctors when it comes to this issue, is that most of the bad ones get away with murder before being disciplined. I was reminded of this only a few weeks ago by seeing the news report of the deadly Dr. Kurt Dangle. After almost killing a plastic surgery patient he operated on months earlier, the state of Florida did nothing to prevent Dr. Dangle from continuing to practice medicine. Any guess what happened next? You got it: Dangle killed a breast implant patient months later. And guess what. He's still licensed to practice medicine, at least as of the date of this report.
Confident that I'm immune from threats of defamation or other legal action from Rangel and Overlawyered (since they're such responsible citizens who would never abuse the judicial process for such a frivolous purpose), I hope you find this collection informative.
