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Comments on: The Status Quo Likes The Obama Plan https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/07/21/the-status-quo-likes-the-obama-plan/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:11:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/07/21/the-status-quo-likes-the-obama-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-47153 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:11:58 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=10218#comment-47153 If doctors would police instead of reflexively protecting their own, they would have a major malpractice problem.

The big cases in Florida are all rather obvious, i.e. they amputated the wrong foot or removed the wrong kidney. I haven’t seen or heard about a case where someone is sued because they didn’t order some other test.

The law suits about testing usually involve the labs doing the tests, not the doctors, and the doctors are often plaintiffs in those suits [which may be a CYA move, but still].

The piece notes that the Texas Medical Association and some others don’t agree with the AMA position, so they are really representing less that 30% of doctors.

]]> By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/07/21/the-status-quo-likes-the-obama-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-47150 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:38:16 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=10218#comment-47150 … or, before about 10 years ago, they could have been trading in graded rare coins and/or precious metals; coin dealers had satellite antennas on their roofs for a while, too, before the Web, to hook up to the biggest coin-trading board. (Yes, that board was my client for a number of years, and eventually I implemented most of the Web version of their exchange.) And yes, some docs trade in those things instead of or in addition to stocks.

Some of those same “conservatives,” including at least one doc I met, used to claim that we should pay schoolteachers less so that only the most dedicated individuals would choose to work as teachers. I wonder why they didn’t apply the same principle to doctors.

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