Georgia affirms 75 million verdict against EM doc

[Boatswain2PA]

Trying to hide assets after a malpractice verdict is very bad

What about before a verdict?
In my state homestead + 160 acres is protected from bankruptcy. I'm still working on paying off my house, but with my low mortgage rate we are just throwing extra money into CDs as they make 30% more than my mortgage rate. One concern I have with this is a lawsuit that exposes the CDs.

With a divorce, the initial filing usually comes with an order prohibiting changes to joint assets (can't drain accounts, cancel cell phone contracts, turn off utilities, etc). I assume something similar would happen with the initial filing of a malpractice claim, but I don't know.

If this isn't the norm, then the time between being served and actual trial would be a good time to hide those assets.

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[BoardingDoc]

He has multiple vacation homes and was trying to sell them to hide them which is a very bad idea

It maybe worked though? Plaintiff filed with the court pointing out that he was doing that and complained...but then settled with him a couple months later.

 

[TooMuchResearch]

The very frustrating thing about this case to me is how much standard of care changed from 2015 to when this eventually came to litigation that I think the experts seriously oversold what would have been possible in 2015 in very much not an experienced hospital for thrombectomy.

Mr. Clean, the trial that brought thrombectomy to the main stream didn’t report out until 1/1/2015. The plaintiff expert also made claims that the plaintiff would have done well “based on a BATMAN score of 8/9” except BATMAN wasn’t created until 2017.

it is an open question if Grady docs would have even intervened in 2015 in a basilar occlusion as most LVO data was for MCA from MR. CLEAN.

The 2 docs did a lot to sabotage their own case, but also, I think the defense lawyers were incompetent here. By the standards of 2015, I think the biggest thing was they should have gotten the MR sooner (or repeated the CTA if it was as unclear as claimed. The images have never been posted so who knows).

As a rad, I never criticize ER colleagues for ordering imaging. Imaging is amazing and noninvasively diagnoses so much. But no one will protect you for being a resource steward.

The only gripe I have is when the history provided is trash. Give me something please . I’ll even dig into your notes, but often the notes are blank and I’m working with what the check in desk wrote the patient says.

I always put something in the comments. Hopefully those get pushed through to the radiologist.

 

[WilcoWorld]

The very frustrating thing about this case to me is how much standard of care changed from 2015 to when this eventually came to litigation that I think the experts seriously oversold what would have been possible in 2015 in very much not an experienced hospital for thrombectomy.

Mr. Clean, the trial that brought thrombectomy to the main stream didn’t report out until 1/1/2015. The plaintiff expert also made claims that the plaintiff would have done well “based on a BATMAN score of 8/9” except BATMAN wasn’t created until 2017.

it is an open question if Grady docs would have even intervened in 2015 in a basilar occlusion as most LVO data was for MCA from MR. CLEAN.

The 2 docs did a lot to sabotage their own case, but also, I think the defense lawyers were incompetent here. By the standards of 2015, I think the biggest thing was they should have gotten the MR sooner (or repeated the CTA if it was as unclear as claimed. The images have never been posted so who knows).

As a rad, I never criticize ER colleagues for ordering imaging. Imaging is amazing and noninvasively diagnoses so much. But no one will protect you for being a resource steward.

The only gripe I have is when the history provided is trash. Give me something please 😂. I’ll even dig into your notes, but often the notes are blank and I’m working with what the check in desk wrote the patient says.

excellent point

 

[Old_Mil]

Didn't realize things had gotten so bad in Georgia.

Homestead your house, keep 100,000-200,000 around for current accounts, put the real assets in a Cook Islands trust.

 

[southerndoc]

Didn't realize things had gotten so bad in Georgia.

Homestead your house, keep 100,000-200,000 around for current accounts, put the real assets in a Cook Islands trust.

Georgia is ranked as one of the worst litigation hellholes lately. Worse than Illinois.

The new tort reform should help... praying at least!

 

[deuist]

Georgia is ranked as one of the worst litigation hellholes lately. Worse than Illinois.

The new tort reform should help... praying at least!

What happened? I remember Georgia as being one of the best years ago.

 

[RustedFox]

What happened? I remember Georgia as being one of the best years ago.

Liberals.

 

[deuist]

Liberals.

Republicans have controlled Georgia's house, senate, and governor since 2005. I'm not sure where liberals play a role.

 

[RustedFox]

Republicans have controlled Georgia's house, senate, and governor since 2005. I'm not sure where liberals play a role.

They ruin everything.

 

[Powdermonkey]

They ruin everything.

I feel your jaded ethos, but could you explain a little for the crayon eaters in the back?

 

[southerndoc]

Just greedy lawyers.

 

[EMhawkeye]

Just greedy lawyers.

And the trial lawyer’s lobbyists in the pockets of politicians regardless of their party affiliation

 

[Brigade4Radiant]

It’s the lawyers isn’t it funny that people can break into your house and sue you or they can be drunk and get in a car accident and face minor penalties. however you work in the ER and someone suffers an injury that you didn’t do but they can sue you for tens of millions.

Police don’t face this but doctors do.

 

[RustedFox]

I feel your jaded ethos, but could you explain a little for the crayon eaters in the back?

Jesus guys, stop taking me seriously when I'm just stirring the pot.

Common complaint is that every thread on here devolves into political mudslinging.

Welllll, it wouldn't be an SDN-EM thread without it then, right?

 

[TooMuchResearch]

Jesus guys, stop taking me seriously when I'm just stirring the pot.

Common complaint is that every thread on here devolves into political mudslinging.

Welllll, it wouldn't be an SDN-EM thread without it then, right?

I did Smith machine squats until I couldn't walk back into my house last week. I think I'm going to swap out front squats for SSB squats next training cycle but leave the smith machine squats in. I'm only typing Smith machine squats repeatedly because I know you don't think they count

 

[RustedFox]

I did Smith machine squats until I couldn't walk back into my house last week. I think I'm going to swap out front squats for SSB squats next training cycle but leave the smith machine squats in. I'm only typing Smith machine squats repeatedly because I know you don't think they count

1. You got me to laugh HARD.
2. THIS guy gets the tenor of the joke.
3. Did you lean BACK into the Smith rack like a girl instead of standing up like a man?

 

[RustedFox]

I did Smith machine squats until I couldn't walk back into my house last week. I think I'm going to swap out front squats for SSB squats next training cycle but leave the smith machine squats in. I'm only typing Smith machine squats repeatedly because I know you don't think they count

Also: "In before Cyanide buys calls on your one rep max."

 

[Powdermonkey]

Jesus guys, stop taking me seriously when I'm just stirring the pot.

Common complaint is that every thread on here devolves into political mudslinging.

Welllll, it wouldn't be an SDN-EM thread without it then, right?

🤣🤣😅

I figured, but I was also curious if you had a take I hadn't heard yet.

Also, stop at parallel or ass to grass squatting?

 

[RustedFox]

🤣🤣😅

I figured, but I was also curious if you had a take I hadn't heard yet.

Also, stop at parallel or ass to grass squatting?

Parallel. Don't complicate the lift; just don't be a sissy and load up the smith machine, then "lean back and lift."

Be a man. Stabilize yourSELF.

 

[HemeOncHopeful19]

Georgia is ranked as one of the worst litigation hellholes lately. Worse than Illinois.

The new tort reform should help... praying at least!

Man you ain’t kiddin’, and here I figured having to live around a bunch of Bulldawg fans would be the worst part of living in Georgia

Teacher wins $70M after she collapsed at home and woke up with no legs

A Georgia teacher has been awarded a $70 million payout more than a decade after botched medical treatment led to the amputation of both her legs.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[TooMuchResearch]

Parallel. Don't complicate the lift; just don't be a sissy and load up the smith machine, then "lean back and lift."

Be a man. Stabilize yourSELF.

I don't know what lean back and lift means. When I do Smith style squats, it's more like a hack squat. My feet are a bit forward. It allows me to take them way deeper than I can with a regular barbell or SSB squat. The lift off the bottom below parallel in that position is the absolute hardest part of the lift for my quads, which is why I set it up that way.

But I like weird stuff. Like camber bar chest press and allowing my shoulders to go forward at the top. Not designed for peak strength.

 

[RustedFox]

I don't know what lean back and lift means. When I do Smith style squats, it's more like a hack squat. My feet are a bit forward. It allows me to take them way deeper than I can with a regular barbell or SSB squat. The lift off the bottom below parallel in that position is the absolute hardest part of the lift for my quads, which is why I set it up that way.

But I like weird stuff. Like camber bar chest press and allowing my shoulders to go forward at the top. Not designed for peak strength.

I mean, I get it: the smith machine has a role - and it's for depth and range of motion.

I rag on it because well, that's what one does.

"Lean back and lift" means that people will lean "into the frame" (generally backwards when they squat, pushing the bar backwards and into the frame), thus making the lift far "easier", because such a move would invariably mean the lifter falling backwards on his ass in a regular, honest-to-God squat with the bar rolling 30 feet away behind him.

Then they act like they can actually squat that much, when they absolutely cannot.

 

[TooMuchResearch]

I mean, I get it: the smith machine has a role - and it's for depth and range of motion.

I rag on it because well, that's what one does.

"Lean back and lift" means that people will lean "into the frame" (generally backwards when they squat, pushing the bar backwards and into the frame), thus making the lift far "easier", because such a move would invariably mean the lifter falling backwards on his ass in a regular, honest-to-God squat with the bar rolling 30 feet away behind him.

Then they act like they can actually squat that much, when they absolutely cannot.

Oh. I Smith squat less than a regular squat anyway. Maybe I'm doing it wrong!

 

[RustedFox]

Oh. I Smith squat less than a regular squat anyway. Maybe I'm doing it wrong!

That's the correct way to use a Smith machine: stretch under load.

But these chodes load it up, lean BACK into a 350 squat on the smith, and think that it "counts" for their goal (1000 pound combined, etc).