Thoughts on sueing doctors

[Akimbo_Slice]

After seeing 3 commercials in a row to sue a doctor if you saw them and something went wrong with some sort of treatment, I wanted to come on here, and see if anyone had the same opinion about it as I do.

I think it is wrong for a patient to sue a doctor because their is something damaged with a replacement heart, or knee after surgery, because where would the patient be if they didnt have the surgery? If its a replacement heart they might have died, or had a heart attack. The same goes for a replacement knee, or a hip. They dont just replace knees just for the hell of it, there has to be something wrong with it in the first place.

If the equipment, such as a valve in a heart, or a knee, or a hip, fail, or is malfunctioning, then I think the company that made the equipment should pay to fix it, not the doctor that got shipped the flawed product.

Your thoughts?

 

[spartan231490]

After seeing 3 commercials in a row to sue a doctor if you saw them and something went wrong with some sort of treatment, I wanted to come on here, and see if anyone had the same opinion about it as I do.

I think it is wrong for a patient to sue a doctor because their is something damaged with a replacement heart, or knee after surgery, because where would the patient be if they didnt have the surgery? If its a replacement heart they might have died, or had a heart attack. The same goes for a replacement knee, or a hip. They dont just replace knees just for the hell of it, there has to be something wrong with it in the first place.

If the equipment, such as a valve in a heart, or a knee, or a hip, fail, or is malfunctioning, then I think the company that made the equipment should pay to fix it, not the doctor that got shipped the flawed product.

Your thoughts?

What if the doctor operates on the wrong leg(it's happened) and leaves you with one replaced knee and one bad knee? There are good reasons to sue doctors, but many of the times it happens it is BS.

 

[Worgen]

there is also the problem of doctors doing stuff they arnt really qualified to do just for extra money and if they fuck that up they should really be sued

 

[Necator15]

While I like where your head is, I'm thinking that in order to properly sue a doctor, you would need to find cause of negligence. Something in your own medical history saying that "If given X, there is a direct link to Y" that a doctor ignored.

Pretty sure you can't sue a doctor if you're body is rejecting an organ or similar. The doctor needs to have fucked up royally.

I've seen a lot of commercials that talk about getting compensation from pharm companies because of negative side-effects of their drugs. These I understand a little better, if the company didn't spend the time and money to properly ensure that X side effect won't occur, and then X side effect occurs, they should have to fix it.

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

Pretty much agree, i think suing is more of an american thing though
But i think suing someone who is only trying to help you, is pretty heartless
Suing should only take place when some serious malpractise has taken place, not an every day occurance or punishment for an error, especially when its probably not even the doctors fault

 

[BrassButtons]

Did the doctor screw up? Sue the doctor.
Did the company that makes the replacement part screw up? Sue the company.
Did everyone do their jobs exactly right, and pure bad luck resulted in complications? Don't sue anyone.

 

[Akimbo_Slice]

Did the doctor screw up? Sue the doctor.
Did the company that makes the replacement part screw up? Sue the company.
Did everyone do their jobs exactly right, and pure bad luck resulted in complications? Don't sue anyone.

That is exactly how i feel, the last one doesnt seem to apply it seems like, by the countless commercials on television.

 

[MikailCaboose]

I don't see suing a doctor for legitimate malpractice is wrong. Hell, it's pretty much one of the things that keeps stuff like medical systems in check. What I don't get are people suing over minor things, like scars from a major operation...

 

[Grospoliner]

Doctors should only be sued for gross incompetence or negligence.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Did the doctor screw up? Sue the doctor.
Did the company that makes the replacement part screw up? Sue the company.
Did everyone do their jobs exactly right, and pure bad luck resulted in complications? Don't sue anyone.

That is exactly how i feel, the last one doesnt seem to apply it seems like, by the countless commercials on television.

Lets put it this way, if a lawyer has to advertise on TV, they aren't a very good lawyer.

 

[Akimbo_Slice]

Did the doctor screw up? Sue the doctor.
Did the company that makes the replacement part screw up? Sue the company.
Did everyone do their jobs exactly right, and pure bad luck resulted in complications? Don't sue anyone.

That is exactly how i feel, the last one doesnt seem to apply it seems like, by the countless commercials on television.

Lets put it this way, if a lawyer has to advertise on TV, they aren't a very good lawyer.

They still cost millions in lawsuits, and as a result the insurance rates on the doctors goes up.

 

[Luthir Fontaine]

Only sue a doctor if you beleive they did something morally wrong... ie they had a drink or they did something with out your permission anything else is just death collecting his due

 

[WolfThomas]

Doctors do have to pay huge medical indemnity insurance because of the high amount of ligation associated with their career. But realistically very few actually lose court cases, that's because it's very hard to prove the link between a failure in the duty of care and the harm that occurred. In surgery in particular infection and bleeding are known and forewarned risks, most medical procedures have a degree of danger inherent, that's kind of par for the course.

But because of the huge costs of court proceedings, most medical cases are settled out of court, the person suing gett a minor payout that usually satifisys them. So that's why they're still so frequent in society.

So yeah usually they're require gross moral disconduct or neglience to be sucessfully sued.

 

[Kakashi on crack]

Doctors not so much, but there are situations where the person needs to be sued.

When my little brother was three years old they took him to a dentist. Said dentist fucked up royally by hitting multiple nerves along his tounge and jaw so that he couldn't speak properly. On top of that he physically bound him to a table because he refused to let my parents in to get him to sit still. We had to pay, I kid you not, THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS in speech therapy programs because of this dentist's fuck-up.

If something like a heart surgery is done, and there are side effects, I understand, but when its the actual person's fault, I think its perfectly acceptable. You have to look at these kind of things on a case-by-case basis. Malfunctioning parts? Like mentioned, the company's fault. The doctor not putting said parts in properly? Its still technically the doctor's fault because they messed up.

Still, in America we sue people for pretty BS reasons...

 

[DJ_DEnM]

Unless they make a fatal mistake like, they operated on the wrong patient or something, then no. You really can't blame them for doing their damn hardest.

 

[BabyRaptor]

I was given the option to sue my doctor once. Chances are I'd have won, at least according to the lawyer.

I thought about it for a few days, decided that no real wrong actually occurred other than me getting freaked out and went along my merry little way.

 

[Super Toast]

If they leave a pair of rubber gloves inside me, I have every right to sue the braindead asshat.

 

[Merkavar]

if the doctor makes a mistake. go a head and sue. but if they did all they can and it still didnt work then people shouldnt sue. all surgery has has risks, shouldnt sue someone just cause you lost the roll of the dice.

 

[KoalaKid]

Doctors should only be sued for gross incompetence or negligence.

This is my opinion as well and honestly I find it hard to understand why anyone would think otherwise.

If doctors were not sued so much there insurance cost wouldn't be so high, and because of that treatment for the patient would be cheaper.

 

[Waaghpowa]

Totally depends on the situation. I know in the states things like insurance costs have a tendency to get in the way, so to speak.

My example would be from an episode of House, a guy accidentally cut his thumb off, at the hospital while having surgery, one of the main characters, Doctor Chase, reattaches it despite the lack of patient approval. Basically the guy didn't have very good insurance so he would rather NOT have his thumb reattached because his insurance didn't cover it. And so he decided to sue the doctor.

To me that's a big "What the hell man?!", Chase basically saved the guys livelihood and he goes and sues him? That's bullshit, although the fact you guys don't have the government covering your hospital bills is partially the cause.