Comments on: Judges go to school http://www.medrants.com/archives/2758 Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: CJD http://www.medrants.com/archives/2758/comment-page-1#comment-135936 CJD Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:15:00 +0000 http://medrants.com/index.php/archives/2758#comment-135936 "Physicians constantly are bewildered that patients and juries expect a theoretical perfection in medical care" Why do physicians keep repeating this statement about the public when all the evidence says otherwise? “Physicians constantly are bewildered that patients and juries expect a theoretical perfection in medical care”

Why do physicians keep repeating this statement about the public when all the evidence says otherwise?

]]> By: Greedy Trial Lawyer http://www.medrants.com/archives/2758/comment-page-1#comment-131715 Greedy Trial Lawyer Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:05:33 +0000 http://medrants.com/index.php/archives/2758#comment-131715 Well, I know I certainly feel better knowing that judges who attend this program will appreciate just how hard it is to make those tough decisions and to communicate effecitively with patients. Unfortunately, who is going to show the judges that the malpractitioners often do not even try to make the tough decisions and do not spend 3 minutes communicating anything to their patients? Do you think depicting the entire medical profession at it's finest is the way to assure that a judge is fair when hearing a claim alleging bonehead stupidity? Well, I know I certainly feel better knowing that judges who attend this program will appreciate just how hard it is to make those tough decisions and to communicate effecitively with patients. Unfortunately, who is going to show the judges that the malpractitioners often do not even try to make the tough decisions and do not spend 3 minutes communicating anything to their patients? Do you think depicting the entire medical profession at it’s finest is the way to assure that a judge is fair when hearing a claim alleging bonehead stupidity?

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