Where do you see his name in my post? Besides, I think Peregrine can take a JOKE!resipsa said:
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resipsa said:
That was all true, and all agreeable until the last sentence. This is the physician's standpoint: that any malpractice case that goes to court should hardly ever be lost, and that cases that are destined to be lost should never be taken to court. When bad cases go to court and get lost, who wins? No one. Who loses? The physician. The public doesn't want to hear about the good physician and the idiot greedy patient and how the physician whipped their ****. They want to hear about the negligent doctor who someone put their trust in and was hurt for it. Even if found not guilty, you can't repair the damage to that physician's reputation. There will always be borderline cases. What the lawyers consider borderline is pretty crappy right now though, and when physicians win malpractice suits they always lose anyway.
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Peregrine said:
I think I understand what you meant now. You were wondering why he wasn't prosecuted criminally for practicing medicine without a license?
I agree that it's highly unlikely the hospital was employing someone without proper credentials. It would be very hard to hide.
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resipsa said:
I looked it up. He MD'd at my CoM, which is how I found his info. Radiology internship and residency at Baylor University, then he came back to Kentucky. Fully board certified in radiology in Kentucky at the time of the incident. I don't know what happened to make them question his scan-reading, and his license was put on "emergency" suspension pending case reviews. The newpaper calls it "emergency" when in fact it's more like "obligatory routine." Unfortunately he just said **** Kentucky and got boarded 2 weeks later in Michigan. That's how these things go most of the time. Physician gets slapped with Kentucky bull****. Another state just says lolkentucky and sweeps them right up. Nothing ever came of the review, and he still practices radiology.
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Kimberely said:
Don't be ridiculous. Oh yes, its all good and well to post a "flame" and have people respond intelligently, so long as they agree with you? If they don't you want them to GTFO or resort to childish name calling or slick one-liners. Thank god most of us people "Don't know how to read, apparently".
I have a few doctors in my family, and I can assure you that they are not infallible. They make mistakes as much as you or I. The difference between a doctor and the jerk that works at a fast food place who stuffs up an order, is that people don't usually die if they don't get their fries. This just means that they are exceptionally careful, as they should be. Its all good and well to focus on the very few cases where patients are not successfully treated, but many ignore the numerous time a doctor actually saves someone. But who cares right? Its their job.
Another thought - If you claimed to have several horrible incidenst with this particular hospital, then why return there? I merely glanced at their website, but they appear to be a public hospital. Was there no private alternative? If you believe that you can receive better treatment at a private place, and choose not to because you would rather save some cash, then I suggest a review of priorities is in order. If however, you could not afford this, then maybe the medicare system in your country is to blame.
Although not entirely related to the thread, I think people need to start exercising preventative measure in terms of their health, and not just think they can rock up to a hospital, on death's door, with the expectation that a physician will make miraculously cure them. I read of a case a while ago, where a man was suing his doctor for diagnosing his lung cancer, too late for any treatment to save him. While the doctor *should* have detected his cancer, is it not also fair to say that the man should not have been smoking heavily for 30+ years?
God El...your parents would be soooo proud of you 
I'm not sure but I don't think the US have a Health Care System that supports those from the lower socio-economic brackets quite as well as ours.
There is just one tiny flaw in the "shopping around" point. People living in rural environments often only have one choice.
Finally.... I will die if I don't get my fries.
I'm not sure but I don't think the US have a Health Care System that supports those from the lower socio-economic brackets quite as well as ours.
There is just one tiny flaw in the "shopping around" point. People living in rural environments often only have one choice.
Finally.... I will die if I don't get my fries.
Eliott said:
Can't you take a joke? Haven't you read have the crap that's posted on here? 99.95% of it is hear-say, the rest is people just being generally ticked off at something.
Peregrine said:
omg...just wait til you get to madisonville. There's one bar... called Bully's.... stay away..... far away..... unless you like 50 year old women hitting on you or you really enjoy the presence of rednecks. Lets see... we have a "mall"..... ha... uh yeah...
There is nothing in Madisonville.... The people suck (most of them)... but its close to places like Evansville, In; Louisville, Ky; St. Louis is close... so is Nashville.... that's the only good thing about it. Oh and me... XD j/k...
I feel so sorry for you Peregrine for being stuck there. *comfort*
crap...I just had a funny thought. I wish I could edit my post to include:
What exactly will you be doing in Madisonville? Cause if you are studying under the one doctor that I actually like... who's my GYN... then that would be irony XD
What exactly will you be doing in Madisonville? Cause if you are studying under the one doctor that I actually like... who's my GYN... then that would be irony XD
Man, I'm glad my area has options lol there's one major hospital, and its ok for emergencies, but definately not for long term care or surgeries. But, if you have enough time and its not a super emergency, Hershey medical is not that far away and Johns Hopkins is also not that far. When my mom had all her surgeries when she had her hernia and pancreatitis (I can't spell), she went to Johns Hopkins; and when she had her back surgery done in March, she went to Hershey. The only time we ever went to our local hospital was when my niece dislocated her elbow.
One thing you might not be taking into consideration is that this town you live in sounds very small, so there's gossip etc. that takes place in all small towns. No hospital is infallible, mistakes are made, all of the time. It seems to me that this radiologist is a scapegoat. They have to place the blame on someone and someone has to be held accountable.
One thing you might not be taking into consideration is that this town you live in sounds very small, so there's gossip etc. that takes place in all small towns. No hospital is infallible, mistakes are made, all of the time. It seems to me that this radiologist is a scapegoat. They have to place the blame on someone and someone has to be held accountable.
Peregrine said:
By lake do you mean Kentucky Lake? >.> that would be a hell of a commute every day... If you ment Pee Wee Lake yeah gl there.. Oh yeah that reminds me.. don't drink the tap water in Madisonville... I used its source (Pee Wee Lake) in my research and it had one of my highest levels of Atrazine (one of the most heavily used herbicides in the US). *I have not tested the tap water but I am sure they eliminate it during filtration and treatment. I would like to test it just to make sure. The EPA allows for 3 ppb in water sources and I found less than half of that. But anyways the water tastes like crap XD
lol Fishing....
There's a lot of nice fishing places around here.. just about anyplace you can cast a line XD
There's a lot of nice fishing places around here.. just about anyplace you can cast a line XD