Would you sign on for a job that was going to take you 10 years of apprenticeship, cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars, get you sued and leave you feeling exhausted and unappreciated at the end of the day?

The dentist (or plastic surgeon) has done the work. The job was properly done. To give the patient back the fees under duress (threat of medical malpractice suit) is tantamount to robbery.

Ask a dozen people what one word describes a doctor, and you’ll likely get a couple dozen answers.  Caring and Healer come up a lot. Ask a dozen doctors why they went into medicine, and the number one answer is that they wanted to help people… and they still do.  Every day doctors see people [...]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is now threatening to employ Reconciliation, a procedural budget maneuver, to push Baucus’ proposed Health Care Reform legislation through, bypassing normal methods and avoiding a potential filibuster.  But this bill, which currently has over 500 amendments and is still in nearly constant revision, has no provision for any sort of [...]

This is just one of the reasons why Tort Reform is so foundational to health care reform… The patient’s focus should be on getting well, rather than Tweeting potential basis for a lawsuit to the world…he patient’s focus should be on getting well, rather than Tweeting potential basis for a lawsuit to the world.

… all too often there isn’t even an injured patient in the first place! Any disgruntled employee or mischievous graffiti artist has been able to make false and vapid claims against a doctor or practice, and then hide behind a cloak of Internet anonymity.