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Originally Posted by ubertuber
reconmike: perhaps you somehow missed posts 22 and 26 in your study of this thread. All of the talk about malpractice is really about trial lawyers.
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That's me!!!
Lawyers can be a problem to anyone for any reason. Many are a problem when it comes to health care, of course. There are plenty of frivolous lawsuits out there trying to take advantage of good, honest, hard working doctors who have done nothing wrong. Here's the deal: they can only screw up the system as much as judges allow them. Judges are some of the most important people in a democracy, as the weight of justice sits squarely on their shoulders. It's the judges like the McDonalds coffee judge, who allowed an idiot jury (you heard me, and
IDIOT jury) to pay out $2.9 million to a woman who alleged that she didn't know coffee was hot, that really screw up things like health care. Prosecutors are required to do the best for whom they represent, by law. Unfortunately, when some ambulance chaser (that's the first time I've used that term to actually describe an ambulance chaser) sues a doctor who did nothing wrong, they are legally required to do everything within the law to win for their client. It's up to the jury, or if not that the judge to dispense justice.