Last month Dr. Mark Macumber, a family practitioner in suburban Chicago, made headlines when he announced that he planned to “go bare” and practice without professional liability insurance. (Sarah A. Klein, “Rising rates force docs out on limb”, Crain’s Chicago Business, Sept. 15). Dr. Macumber has set up his own website (“SaveMyDoc.com“) and his case has stimulated an interesting discussion among medical webloggers: MedPundit (Sept. 27), GruntDoc (Sept. 29), Bhavesh Patel (Sept. 30), Cut to Cure (Aug. 3, scroll down, not on Dr. Macumber but same general subject matter), and MedPundit again (Oct. 2, archives busted, scroll down). After the last-mentioned of these, keep scrolling down to “Beware of Experts” for an exchange between MedPundit and The Bloviator (Oct. 2) on the question of whether unreliable expert testimony was used against a Phoenix gynecologist on trial for taking improper liberties with female patients, and the possible harms done by such testimony even if the doctor turns out to be guilty as charged.
The doctor who went bare
Last month Dr. Mark Macumber, a family practitioner in suburban Chicago, made headlines when he announced that he planned to “go bare” and practice without professional liability insurance. (Sarah A. Klein, “Rising rates force docs out on limb”, Crain’s Chicago Business, Sept. 15). Dr. Macumber has set up his own website (“SaveMyDoc.com“) and his case […]
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