Doctors not liable for criminal prosecution except in grossly negligent cases
The newspapers and wires have been agog this morning with the news of a Supreme Court ruling that disallows criminal prosecution of doctors except in the "most negligent" scenarios. However, damages may still have to be paid by the doctors, as part of civil cases.
In a way this is a good thing, because it prevents patients from using the police and the criminal judiciary from harassing us. More and more we have seen that because the civil and consumer courts take their own time in meting out justice, patients turn for immediate relief to neighborhood goons, politicians and the police who if nothing else come to the clinics and hospitals and try and arrest the doctor.
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Doctor’s SHOULD be criminally prosecuted for any form of negligence. If you are too incompetent to practice medicine, then you should not practice it! Of course, most of you think you are immensely more intelligent than every member of the general public and vastly superior to the rest of us, so it stands to reason that you should have HIGHER standards! Since you can’t seem to impose any standards on yourselves, the public desperately need to prompt lawmakers to force you to behavior professionally.
In generally doctors are wealthy, so civil punishments aren’t a deterrent to malpractice (especially since your insurance probably covers all damages and there are even caps on that now). Perhaps some real punishment would deter you from your arrogance and encourage competence. As the situation stands now, many of you are butchers who get away with involuntary manslaughter (if not plan old murder).
Many of you are very condensing to your patients, and on the occasion that you do have a patient who is your intellectual match or superior, you cannot stand it. Most of you seemed incensed when your judgment is questioned. This is the mark of an idiot; not the geniuses and scholars you seem to think of yourselves as. I apologize to the doctors who really care about humanity, strive to be competent, and go beyond the call of duty to learn new methods to improve their practice. You are a rare breed. I think the rest of you are butchers. I’d rather have my surgery preformed by a veterinary – at least most of them give a damn about something besides money and ego.
3:35 AM
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