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[HemeOncHopeful19]

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They actually gave me a choice. I went to deposition with their lawyer/family, spent prob 3 hrs in all. I spent prob 5 hrs before looking through all the records to make sure I didn't miss a Gotcha. Deposition was actually scheduled a month before the actual and I had to switch/give up shifts to accommodate. Guess what, plaintiffs couldn't make it so had to change to new date. Giving up/switching shifts prob costs me 5K and a schedule I didn't want.

I could not imagine what a trial would be like. Maybe more depositions? Maybe more schedule changes? Maybe wasting a few dys or even week in trial? Getting my care dragged through the mud and not able to say a word? Sitting in a room for days being bored to death? Losing 10K in missed shifts and pissing my partners off who had to cover me? I had 3 young kids at home and having to put my wife through a trial?

I am too pragmatic to die on this hill just to be proven right. I walked away from this lawsuit settlement with the same confidence/integrity regardless if I won or lost the case. From my POV, the case would not have changed a thing.

Concerning the NPDB, I have been through many MEC/credentialing meetings and a case like this on a doc practicing 15+ years would have not moved a needle. This case never prevented me from getting credentialing anywhere.

On the brighter side, maybe the family used the money on the mom's kids and they got a good college education out of it.

More likely the case gets dropped when they realize you won’t fold. Seen it happen a few times.

 

[Mount Asclepius]

The post above you: blunt instrument, crayon
Your post: fine and refined. A fountain pen

Feel free to discharge all the tachycardic patients you want. The lawyers love that. Perhaps they’ll serve you with papers written in crayon. At least that might make you laugh a little, which is sometimes all that you can do as a response in the ED when a tragedy like this happens and perhaps no one is at fault. There aren’t enough details to adequately MMQB this case and even that wouldn’t do it justice when we all know that the system including admitted boarding patients, low nursing staffing levels, and an overwhelming volume of worried well also might have affected this case. I applaud the father for seeking a path in health policy instead of placing his entire focus on litigation. At least it’s a search for a solution in a mess of a system. This site could use a little more of that and a little less toxic negativity. Perhaps, more crayons.