Here’s a view against capping medical malpractice lawsuits. Personally, I am for capping these lawsuits, at least to the extent that they are responsible for rising medical costs. However, as Dr. Pinson alludes to, bad and incompetent doctors should not be allowed to mis-practice their profession in secrecy. It’s simple enough to bring these matters…
Category: Medicine
Bad Medicine
“Shuo-Shan Wang, 29, was found guilty by a jury Friday for performing a voluntary castration on another man without a license“, says CNN.com. What kind of numb-nuts, pardon my half-pun, actually wants to get neutered on some guy’s kitchen table? But perhaps the bigger questions are, given the voluntary nature of the “operation“: 1. Why…
HMOs
Here’s a good one: Supreme Court ruling approves state laws on doctor choice. What do the HMOs have to say? The Health Insurance Association of America says the laws “are one more instance of government unnecessarily interfering in private relationships between doctors and health plans.” Uh, right. No doctor I’ve ever met truly wants to…
Heart Transplant Patient’s Widow Sues
The widow of a volunteer for an experimental artificial heart is suing the manufacturer and hospital involved. Read the AP story on Yahoo.com. Interestingly, the basis for the suit is not pain and suffering but the “inconvenience” of being examined repeatedly. What is not discussed in the article is the patient’s previous condition. Did he…