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- From: george@ibmpcug.co.uk (Michael Veltman)
- Subject: Re: Questions for MDs
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- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 18:40:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.184059.3733@ibmpcug.co.uk>
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- In article <54906@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
- >Ours is the only nation which affords the patient any real redress
- >for even gross incompetence. The laws should be changed, but only
- >to protect from misrepresentation or real incompetence. But
- >misrepresentation should include withholding of information, or
- >claiming the ability to do something, which may be licensed, but
- >where the ability is not there.
- >
-
- Dear Herman.
-
- I can assure you that most first world nations offer patients
- redress from gross incompetence. In fact, most first world
- nations offer redress from even moderate incompetence.
-
- The expanding problem in the US and other places is the ability
- to sue for minor or less incompetences, where nobody dies and
- where even there is no major ongoing suffering, and still
- provide large payouts.
-
- I understand that this is partly because of the private nature
- of the medical care there, whereas in other areas of the world
- if there are minor problems with care they can be fixed up
- free and without charge, even to people too poor or too poorly
- educated to seek redress.
-
- Michael
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