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No one was in the room other than the doctor and the patient. 50/50 odds the doctor told him, but didn't document it. Which makes lawyers salivate.
This shows a few flaws with the system:
Excessive awards and malpractic insurance. This verdict is ridiculous. Also, what idiot goes and performs strenuous activity when he's getting chest pain 40% responsible is silly.
Case overload. providers who have to see 20-30 patients a day also have to document, and usually documentation takes at east 10 minutes to do a good job if there's no additional paperwork. If people want quality and time out of the system, they'll have to expect to pay more, especially since more and more med students are leaving with larger amounts of student loans.
Good medical care is expensive. Poor medical care even more expensive. Foolish behavior can be the most expensive of all. The Doctor should not have to document common sense. This is just another idiot led by his little head into an irrecoverable situation. My sympathies are with his sex partners that had their fun interrupted by the sudden appearance of a corpse. Now that can be a real buzz kill.
wish I could have been on this jury. I've vote against giving any money to the family. It seems common sense isn't so common anymore. Even if the doctor didn't tell him not to engage in any vigorous activity that would raise his heart rate (which I highly doubt), common sense says you just went to a doctor for chest pains and have a medical test scheduled to see the condition of your heart then you take it easy until after getting the results of the test. I think the doc told him to take it easy and he just couldn't pass up an opportunity for a 2 guy 1 girl three way (not worth dying over). If he had life insurance and it paid out then that's all the family deserves.
How about learning about our justice system before you whine about things. Did you study it in high school? Go to college? The amount will get knocked down in appeal.
Instead of whining about the $3M, perhaps you could all start whining about people's rush to comment on things about which they know nothing.
Yet another thread where you're commenting on healthcare and yet know not much about it. Go do some research on healthcare costs. Litigation is a rather small piece of the puzzle.
But defensive medicine is NOT a small piece of the puzzle.
Btw, no matter how much it gets 'knocked down,' I can guarantee you hundreds of thousands were already spent on the defense.
People only look at the reward amounts. Never the cost of litigation/defense.
YOU, sir, are the one who needs education.
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