On Thursday 07 December 2006 14:04, Cedric Meyerowitz wrote: > Yet why do we as GP's get sued because we told patient to see Specialist. > We gave referral letter with contact details of specialist. Patient > decides not to go and sues us succesfully later because we didn't follow up > on this and lawyers claim the patient was unaware of all the implications > etc. of his disease / actions ???
Because some judges are just shortsighted morons incapable of considering the long term consequences of their illogical actions (guess every profession has such, including ours - but few other professions can have such devastating and rather lasting impact on society as a whole as judges do) And because our current culture of dominating lawyer-politicans has practically eradicated the concept of personal responsibility = all hail the one who finds the scape goat and hits it hard I indulge in the obvious delusion that as long as I establish good report with the patient and explain everything properly, it won't happen to me. Yeah, I know, naive ... Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
