Horst But the lawyers & judges wouldn't be doing these illogical actions if the patient who was given the referral in their hand, didn't decide to sue the Doctor. So we must firstly blame the patient. The same patient that tells you it's okay to send him unencrypted information asbout himself, by E-mail.
Cedric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Horst Herb Sent: Thursday, 7 December 2006 6:56 PM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Re: [Nat-Div] More questions on Argus 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 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
