"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Being There:Richard[WINTERS] has an all too common tale of being on the receiving end of a malpractice suit, just for being in the presence of the patient at some point in their hospitalization. I had a similar experience a few months ago. My only crime was to have the misfortune of having my name appear legibly in the chart. The nursing staff called me late one night to ask for Tylenol for the patient for arthritits pain. I ordered it. She died two weeks later from complications of surgery. It had nothing to do with her Tylenol, but nonetheless, I was sued, as was everyone else who ever touched her chart or spoke a word to a nurse about her. Even those whose names were illegible were sued - they were "Doctors John Doe 1 - 20." (I suspect many of 1-20 were the same doctor with the same illegible signature.) The suit was dropped for lack of merit, but I still had to take time to go over the records and meet with the attorney to mount a defense before it was finally dropped, as did everyone else who was named. posted by Sydney on
9/25/2002 06:48:00 AM
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