Why are EM doctors so scared of lawyers

[deleted109597]

It could be worse. You could be Au Bon Pain and be sued for $2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. http://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/05/2-undecillion-dollar-demand.html

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[EctopicFetus]

It could be worse. You could be Au Bon Pain and be sued for $2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. http://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/05/2-undecillion-dollar-demand.html

For those capitalist pigs at Au Bon Pain thats like a weekend of selling croissants.

 

[Birdstrike]

It could be worse. You could be Au Bon Pain and be sued for $2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. http://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/05/2-undecillion-dollar-demand.html

That's awesome. The legitimacy of a lawsuit is obviously inversely proportional to amount of dollars demanded. Being sued for "undecillion" dollars...what a joke.

 

[CommunityED]

http://what-if.xkcd.com/96/

XKCD did the math on this lawsuit...

 

[MSmentor018]

Perrot,

Since you mentioned OB Ill just say this. The C section rate has soared. Do you know why? Trying to prevent CP births. Has it worked? No?

and thanks to them every doc (at least in FL) has to pay for it on your license renewal...the NICA fee.

 

[MSmentor018]

I think non docs or maybe even residents miss the point. The fear isnt about being sued and losing or settling. it is really just about being sued.

I completely agree. how about even the basic things like:
-telling your future employers
-possibly being ran out of the your job or state (someone posted this earlier)
-I attended a course on credentialing last year, in FL if you had any dings on your record, including complaints to board of medicine for anything you're considered a level 2 and may not get credentials (1 clean record, 3 is high risk)
-having to pay to go to a med board to explain your case when you get your license (this happen to someone i know)
-anger, resentment, depression....ever wonder how that's going to affect your family?
-thinking that each and every patient encounter, they're going to run you though that legal gambit again

I also agree we're not helping the system any with defensive medicine but then the system is not helping us either

 

[RustedFox]

and thanks to them every doc (at least in FL) has to pay for it on your license renewal...the NICA fee.

750 bucks, if I remember correctly... last time they tagged me for it.