Comments on: Update: rude doctor won’t be punished, plans suit

By: Deoxy

Deoxy — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:46:54 +0000

SC,

I don’t necessarily disagre with anything you posted.

Unfortunately, none of what you posted contradicts what I wrote, either.

By: Amy Alkon

Amy Alkon — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 01:47:47 +0000

My drycleaner was rude. I changed drycleaners.

I appreciate straight talk from my doctor, my editorial assistant and anybody I pay for their opinion. More doctors should be more frank about their patients’ fat asses.

By: Supremacy Claus

Supremacy Claus — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:00:57 +0000

Deoxy: The doctor was charged with lack of civility. That is lawyer thought police gotcha. How does that protect the public safety?

No one is advocating any scorched earth against the Board for substantively protecting the public safety. The doctor is now the most regulated, hassled, strangulated of professions. It is time to deter the enemies of clinical care.

The lawyer run license board is one. The doctors on the Board have no influence on this lawyer. If any speaks up? Gone.

Medicine is totally regulated by a single lawyer in each state. He claims total immunity and discretion, like a prosecutor, even though no statute declares him one. Make state government choose between massive costs, and this arch enemy of clinical care.

During discovery, the Board may be found to have gotten the idea of civility enforcement from the AMA ethics people and national accreditation reviewers. As guideline makers, these entities can also be held accountable. To deter.

As a patient, I don’t want my doctor second guessing himself as to how to address me about a life threatening condition, and what must be done about it. If I am so offended by his tone, I can go to another, more mealy mouthed doctor. I have no right to disrupt his practice with a licensing hassle. If I make my complaint public, before it has been adjudicated, I believe, I have waived my legal immunity from torts liabilities to the doctor.

By: Deoxy

Deoxy — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:27:10 +0000

SC,

Just remember to target your complaints properly the next time the New Hampshire State Medical Board refuses to discipline a doctor who badly needs it. This suit right here will be the reason.

By: Supremacy Claus

Supremacy Claus — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:56:19 +0000

I support the doctor’s seeking recourse. There were violations of his right to free speech and of his right to not have interference with his contracts with patient and payment providers for medical care. To deter.

Prior government experience predicts something. Even if his lawsuit fails, the people at the Licensing Board who hassled him will all have new jobs because they generated defense costs in a tight budget. This will be especially satisfying in the case of the lawyer-prosecutor who brought this un-American, bonehead, PC action against the doctor.