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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Apologies in advance if this strikes people as a Politics issue, but there's an MD in South Carolina who's asking the AMA for an ethics ruling that he and others can refuse medical treatment to med-mal lawyers, their spouses, and their children. This proposal would create a "carve out" to the Hippocratic Oath that has for 2,500 years made doctors better and less selfish than lawyers.
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I don't see why they are bothering with the AMA. It is their state medical boad that determines what ethical standards they are held to.
I don't know of any state that requires a doctor to treat lawyers if the doctor doesn't want to. It is perfectly legal, just like the doctor doesn't have to treat patients without insurance.
The problem will be with the insurance plans they are participating providers with. I suspect that their contracts don't allow for them to selectively refuse to treat a plan member.
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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
If the linked NPR story is the same one I heard this morning, there's also an "insurance" scheme under which MDs can pay yearly for pre-paid legal services to file retributive counterclaims against former patients who allege negligence in medical treatment. (The story is silent on this, but I'll wager they're writing it off as a business expense.)
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If their lawyers are filing frivolous counter claims, then the lawyers should be disciplined and the court should sanction them. If they have legitimate counterclaims, then why would have a problem with them filing their counterclaims?
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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I'm not a med-mal lawyer, but if this passes the AMA I will dedicate a decent portion of my life to bringing whatever pain I can to MDs and their spouses and their children. That includes the ones to whom I am related.
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Doing what? Filing frivolous lawsuits against them?
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