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Originally posted by Spanky
No - I should know better, but I was repeating hearsay. I sit on the Republican Central Committee for Santa Clara County (Silicon Valley) and the chairman is a doctor. He was once the president of the AMA. Anyway, most of the leadership of the Republican party here in the Bay Area is pissed off doctors. He is constantly telling me medical malpractice nightmares. If you want me to get you sources from him I can. If it is really important.
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Oh, I believe that doctors in California have a lot to bitch about.
Bitching about managed care nightmares and the failure of capitation, I can understand. Wanting to leave the state because reimbursement is so low, I can understand. Being frustrated at trying and failing to get on some of the panels (especially Hill Physicians in the Bay Area) and being effectively cut out of an entire market, I can understand. Being pissed off as hell over idiotic surcharges on malpractice insurance premiums because of "claims history" that has nothing to do with claims, I can understand. I regularly tell residents in Texas not to relocate to California unless absolutely necessary because physicians are treated so poorly there (go look at
the San Diego Medical Society's report from about four years ago for details on how much it sucks to be a physician in California). But, because of MICRA frivilous malpractice claims should be very low on a physician's bitch list in California. I used to work very closely with CMA, and the malpractice crisis wasn't what kept them up at night (insert sleep apnea joke here).
