Supreme Court declines another Feres challenge

[Monty Python]

Supreme Court again declines to hear Feres challenge.

Supreme Court refuses to hear yet another challenge to the controversial Feres Doctrine on military medical malpractice

The Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition to hear a wrongful death case involving the controversial Feres Doctrine; a major blow to advocates seeking to undo the 69-year-old legal rule.

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[armytrainingsir]

Good.

 

[pgg]

Not good.

 

[Cooperd0g]

This is tough. I'm not a huge fan of looming threats to make people perform, but in some cases it works really well. The bigger issue is being an individual doc sued for malpractice when maybe the reality is you just didn't have the right stuff or some corpsman/IDC that you may not even know is operating under your license did something wrong. The military puts docs in positions that they shouldn't always be in.

Perhaps a fair compromise is that overseas or operational based (ships, etc) things fall under Feres, but stateside MTF or clinic care does not. That would potentially force the military to ensure proper staffing and equipment of stateside facilities or accelerate the collapse of milmed.

 

[HighPriest]

The best answer is to institute some form of Stalinism. Send all us bourgeois physicians to a gulag, since we're just using the worker. Let the corpsman and nurses of the workforce assume our positions, and if someone tries to sue the state? Yeah, wrong move, buddy. The state is never wrong.