Comments on: ABC on Edwards the malpractice lawyer

By: Bill Dupon

Bill Dupon — Sat, 31 Jul 2004 07:41:05 +0000

Mr Scruggs has some other tricks too. Like oozing under a door and opening it from the other side.

By: arf

arf — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 16:10:54 +0000

In the recent DNC convention, you hear Edwards……once again……say that he was proud to have sued “HMO’s and big insurance companies”

No he didn’t.

He sued individual doctors, groups of doctors, and hospitals.

By: chris

chris — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 06:17:48 +0000

Give a trial lawyer these two opportunities:
A) Go after a legitimate malpractice case against a doctor going “bare” with only 250k to his name.
B) Go after a weak malpractice case against a doctor backed by an insurance company.

Now, although the trial lawyers like to “champion for the downtrodden and poor”, which case do you think they would take?

By: AKS

AKS — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 22:21:27 +0000

I wonder if you really are ignorant, sometimes, Bernie. Trial lawyers go after the deeper pocket, truth be damned. This is another reason why midwives suffer fewer lawsuits than OB-GYNs.

By: Santhosh

Santhosh — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:26:26 +0000

I wouldn’t give kudos to ABC for airing this piece; Barbara Walters went out of her way to indicate that the piece DID NOT reflect the views of herself OR ABC. Give credit where it’s due–to John Stossel.

By: arf

arf — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:29:55 +0000

No, why not point out to Bernie the obvious answer. The answer that I’ve seen first hand in operating rooms for the last twenty years.

If the midwife encounters a complicated or difficult obstetric case, what does the midwife do with the patient?

Who ya gonna call?

You wanna take a wild guess, Bernie, where the midwife sends that pregnant lady?

I’ll give you a hint, it’s not John Edwards law firm.

By: kmh

kmh — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 05:01:31 +0000

before we waste time on midwifery comments,

there is a good government estimate of the mutlibillion dollar costs of tests that are ordered YEARLY
for defensive medicine purposes (not patient care purposes)

http://www.house.gov/jec/tort/05-06-03.pdf

defensive medicine costs??
60-120 billion dollars
PER YEAR.

equivalent to one world trade center every year.

As far as midwives are concerned…the market place will do more to affect physician practice than arguments about which profession holds superiority.

college students are getting it. Recent med schools applications are far below historical averages.

when costs of training exceed 150,000 dollars and midlevel training is a fraction of that and earnings are about the same pay/hour… no wonder why college grads do not wan’t to invest many years to become a physician.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 04:54:12 +0000

Yeah, I was very surprised that network news ran this piece. It was very telling of the kinds of shmucks trial lawyers are (I know, its a generalization). I don’t want to incite politics, but again, I’m very surprised a network news station aired something not-too-kind concerning the profession of a _____ vice-pres candidate.

Props to John Stossel for exposing jerks like Scruggs.

By: jb

jb — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 03:26:27 +0000

Midwives are trained to take care of the low risk deliveries, and leave anything the least bit risky to the OBs. They still get sued, but by cherry-picking the easy cases they have less liability exposure.

By: Irene

Irene — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 02:20:47 +0000

Quite a few, Bernie. In fact, birthing centers are closing left and right because they can’t afford malpractice insurance. Our lawyers are for equal opportunity!