New Medical Malpractice Website Blacklists Plaintiffs
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Bob's Note: This was bound to happen sooner or later. Money hungry ambulance chasing lawyers and corrupt left-wing politicians whose biggest contributors are the Trial Lawyer's Association have created this crisis. Doctors are leaving the field to open restaurants and other businesses because their experiences with overwork, stress, and low quality care, demeaning and controlling government interference have taken the joy out of medicine. I'm still working in this field, I know why MD's are taking actions like the one mentioned in this article. The solution: get government out of the medical field before it is destroyed and let the free market balance out the problems.
And guess what happened...the MD's who started it have just shut it down! Here's their statement:
DoctorsKnow.Us has permanently ceased operations as of 3/9/04. The controversy this site has ignited was unanticipated and has polarized opinions regarding the medical malpractice crisis. Our hope is that this controversy will spark a serious discussion that results in changes that are equitable to both patients and physicians. All charges that have been collected will be returned to members and trial members.
Sincerely,
Doctors.Know.Us, L.L.C.Rense.com
From Ingri Cassel
3-7-4
- The below article is so incredible to me. The pHARM-us (pharmaceutical industry) and medical doctors are in cahoots again with the following website:
- www.doctorsknow.us
- I went to this site and was blocked when I attempted to go to the section pertaining to individuals who have sued a doctor for malpractice.
- Wow! Anyone wanna be a member? Any MDs out there who care to check this out for the hapless consumer?
- BTW, when I went to the website and saw the display of lab coated psychopaths on the home page, I felt sick -- do you????
- Ingri
- MDs Urged to Denounce Malpractice Site
Texas Group Urges Doctors To Denounce Internet Database
That Profiles Malpractice Plaintiffs- The Associated Press
http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040305_2234.html- DALLAS (AP) - A consumer rights group Friday urged the Texas Medical Association to denounce an Internet database that profiles patients who have sued doctors for malpractice.
- Texas Watch said the profiling amounts to a blacklist.
- The Web site www.doctorsknow.us boasts of being the first company to profile plaintiffs, their lawyers and expert witnesses in malpractice lawsuits in Texas and other states. For $4.95 a month, the site invites doctors to use the service to "assess the risk of offering your services to clients or potential clients."
- A site slogan reads: "They can sue, but they can't hide."
- Dan Lambe, executive director of Texas Watch, said the site is attempting to scare patients.
- "This type of blacklisting runs counter to the Hippocratic Oath to the ethical and moral goals and obligations of medical professionals," Lambe said.
- Dr. John Shannon Jones, a radiologist who created the database, could not be reached by The Associated Press for comment Friday. He told The Wall Street Journal that people who sue doctors are going to find their access to health care may be limited.
- "That's a harsh thing to say, but this is a war," said Jones, who has settled two malpractice cases.
- The database has about 50 members and has fewer than 100,000 patient names, the Journal reported. Jones said in most cases, it doesn't indicate the outcome of a suit or whether the suit had merit or was deemed frivolous.
- That's one of the things that bothers Rick Beeson, 45, of Wichita Falls, who is listed on the database because he and his wife won a $9.4 million settlement in a malpractice case involving their 7-year- old son.
- The boy suffered severe brain damage, developed cerebral palsy and has had five surgeries to repair his vision after a doctor and hospital staff failed to treat his low blood sugar at birth, his father said.
- "We're against frivolous lawsuits like everyone else is," Beeson said. "At the same time, the ones that are warranted, people should be able to have the lawsuits and not be put on a blacklist. Who else is going to regulate the doctors if we can't have civil lawsuits against them?"
- Bohn Allen, president-elect of the medical association, declined to denounce the Web site, saying he'd only just heard of it and is waiting to see if it generates any complaints.
- "What this Web site represents is the bubbling up of frustration that many doctors have had with frivolous lawsuits," Allen said. "Patients nowadays have a right and do get a lot of information about doctors before they go see their doctors and there's certainly nothing that should prevent doctors from being aware of the small number of patients who abuse the system."
- But Allen added that he doubts the site will get much use.
- "Doctors are not about restricting access to health care and blacklisting patients," he said. "Doctors are about improving access and taking care of sick folks."
- Taking care of sick folks -- for them is making sure they can continue taking care of MORE of them... DON'T be a victim! as the Yurko teeshirt slogan says.... www.freeyurko.bizland.com
- Thanks to "Scrap" on the VacLib Yahoo Group for making this important article known. It certainly corroborates with my STRONG suggestion to only utilize the services of a naturopath or chiropractor when needing the services of a medical professional. This is the protocol I have used for all of my adult life and we do NOT have health insurance. Never had it, don't want it, and NEVER will have it. My personal protest of the "system". Anyway, I do have one child, a healthy 18 year old who is doing just fine. No "disease-assurance" necessary -- thankfully. We DID have a crisis Fall of 2002 which was overcome by the grace of God working through my husband, Christie's step-father. I will share this story with any of you if you need to know the power of natural healing versus our current drug-based medical care system. Christie will be graduating from junior college with an AA this summer -- at 18. Had to get this off my chest so that more parents will opt "out" rather than "in" the current system. Medical advice? Common Sense at this point in time.
- Ingri Cassel, director Vaccination Liberation P.O. Box 457 Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869 (208) 255-2307/ (888) 249-1421 vaclib@coldreams.com mailto:vaclib@coldreams.com>
- www.vaclib.org http://www.vaclib.org> "FreeYour Mind.... From the Vaccine Paradigm"
- "When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies." ~ U.S. Representative Ron Paul