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Pennsylvania Doctor Laments there just aren't enough Medical Malpractice Cases

By Steve Lombardi

In Morning Call, a Pennsylvania's newspaper reports medical malpractice lawsuit trials are on the decrease as more cases are settled. In a followup article John A. Kibelstis, M.D. openly worries about who with adequate trial experience will in the future defend them.

When the desire to make a legitimate profit turns to greed we get the types of admissions as seen in Pennsylvania.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Pennsylvania Medical Society admits it made unsubstantiated claims in its campaign to scare citizens and lawmakers into believing that a medical malpractice crisis justifies changing the state constitution and curtailing the legal rights of injured patients.

The medical society has insisted that malpractice insurance costs have driven as many as 1,700 doctors out of Pennsylvania. But on April 22, the chairman of the medical society finally acknowledged to state legislators that data show the state has gained 800 doctors over the past two years, as reported by the Morning Call of Allentown.

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Wanting to make a profit is fine, but lying to create a false impression of the need for changes that favor your wallet is simply being greedy. Greed is just another from of gluttony; the vice that caused the fall of Rome. This is shameful for an organization of professionals to seek to take away the rights of injured patients simply for the sake of fattening their paychecks; and especially from a profession that takes an oath to do no harm. Supporting reforms that pass on the costs of medical mistakes to the innocent and injured patient is just another form of unbridled greed. Have we no shame? Don't wonder why this next generation seems to have no drive to participate in the establishment. Because we are the establishment. We've become what we marched against in the 1960's.

Does the oath to do no harm exclude lying that harms the patients' financially?

This organized lying is really despicable when you consider the harm caused to patients with inadequate recovery to pay for future medical treatment, to send their kids to college, to buy groceries or other necessities of life. How do they sleep at night?

The doctor's are sounding like farmers sitting around the coffee shop complaining about the weather; too much rain, not enough rain and remembering $4 corn or something to that effect; heck when I last heard that conversation I was a transplanted New Englander in the Midwest as a law student who hadn't a clue what price made corn a good crop to plant. My mother-in-law at that time, a farmer's wife from Newton, Iowa always had a lawyer joke for me. I had one about farmers that today I'll modify for doctors.

Do you know why doctors don't drive Cadillac's? The glove box isn't big enough to hold all the government relief checks.

What does society really need; more tort reform or pork reform?

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Steve Lombardi

Full post as published by Des Moines Personal Injury Lawyer on June 24, 2009 (boomark / email).