Comments on: “Running Doctors Out Of The Emergency Room” https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/06/running-doctors-out-of-the-emergency-room/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:40:08 +0000 hourly 1 By: Trish Sablic https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/06/running-doctors-out-of-the-emergency-room/comment-page-1/#comment-7717 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:14:55 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5000#comment-7717 One wonders how the jury determined the 20% responsible figure. Or when, exactly, people started to think of the human body as a machine…if the doctor does A and B, then C will always be the result. Medicine doesn’t work this way and never has.
Mrs. Lucia is, indeed, lucky to be alive if she was in septic shock. Maybe she should hold Dr. Haedicke 100% responsible for that.
The name of your website says it all!

]]> By: jb https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/06/running-doctors-out-of-the-emergency-room/comment-page-1/#comment-7716 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:25:12 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5000#comment-7716 Juries decide like this because of visible vs invisible costs. Everyone can see the poor amputee patient, and it’s clear what she’s lost. They can’t see the incremental societal loss due to rising bills, decreasing number of doctors, or the possibility that the patient may have died instead. It’s just “there was a bad outcome, let’s compensate her for it.”

]]> By: William Nuesslein https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/06/running-doctors-out-of-the-emergency-room/comment-page-1/#comment-7715 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:56:09 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5000#comment-7715 The outcome of a trial should be based on the facts and the law. Absent evidence of intent to harm, there is no justification for second-guessing the doctor. At some point someone has to decide what to do.

(This doctor even sought the advise of four others before proceeding.)

At the end of the day, the jury failed miserably, as they often do.

]]> By: Joe Bingham https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/06/running-doctors-out-of-the-emergency-room/comment-page-1/#comment-7714 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:27:21 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5000#comment-7714 Wow, what a great column. Thanks, awesome reader!

]]> By: Greedy Trial Lawyer https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/06/running-doctors-out-of-the-emergency-room/comment-page-1/#comment-7713 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:04:09 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5000#comment-7713 Dr. Haedicke, despite his exceptional career, was found to have practiced below the accepted standard of medical care on this occasion and was determined to have been 20% responsible for the losses sustained by Mrs. Lucia.

Whatever decisions Dr. Haedicke makes about his future should not cause the rest of us to ignore his breach of the standard of care and to give him or any other doctor a free pass.

Good doctors make mistakes and good people have to live the rest of their lives with the results of those mistakes.

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