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Originally Posted by Amnesia620
The problem with this thread is we're not able to be certain of the validity of the original post, itself. Therefore, if it Isn't authentic - then anyone could have written it for the reason to promote the success of the bill in congress or another reason unseen.
What had happened in the original post to the woman could be theoretical complications based on whatever surgery is being performed. A med student could have written it for all we know.
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I agree that we can't know the veracity of this claim. Adding a "what if" to the beginning of the initial post would have made life so much simpler.
But the concept is there, and we all know that there are docs out there who make BIG fuckups, and there's now an attempt to limit their responsibility for those fuckups.
If you want a REAL story, try this one on for size. This one happened to a friend of mine's mother. She went in with toxic shock syndrome that was misdiagnosed as a kidney stone after the attending decided to diagnose without running any tests. She sat in the hospital for 20 hours waiting to be looked at again, by which point she was nearly dead. They did emergency surgery and pulled 2.5 cups of pus out of her abdomen. She spent the next 3 weeks in the hospital recovering from almost being killed by a condition that, had it been diagnosed properly, would have been cleared up with antibiotics.
So because a doctor decided he was too busy to actually do his job, my friend's mother nearly died. And now Bush is telling me that these guys should have the government bail them out by limiting their liability?
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here's somethign interesting. Run a search for Eileen Bialek on google. This guy's posting it to every msg board he can find. Make of that what you will.