Comments on: Medical roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/08/medical-roundup-33/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 04 Aug 2015 20:06:54 +0000 hourly 1 By: old_engineer https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/08/medical-roundup-33/comment-page-1/#comment-326312 Tue, 04 Aug 2015 20:06:54 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=54384#comment-326312 FIL, a retired neurologist, specialized in stroke, epilepsy, and other degenerative neuromuscular diseases. If you just looked at his “numbers” then the great bulk of his patients died, most horribly. This is forgetting the patients who were terminal before he saw them, but could then be included in “his” numbers. Many patients as well as friends and family members still sought him out as he was usually correct when making a diagnosis where other doctors had it just plain wrong or completely misread the symptoms.

On a similar note, I am a “clean” for two years cancer patient. Many of my surgeon’s patients do not last long. Yet, he had the skill set to operate rather successfully on me. A “number” often has little impact on your outcome.

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