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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Lane3 who wrote (7930)	7/31/2009 8:44:14 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 42652

He does the procedure because he was taught it in med school, the procedure has become the standard protocol for the ailment, and all his fellows do it. Either no one has studied outcome data or the fact that the procedure isn't effective or cost effective hasn't yet seeped into the set of protocols that doctors follow. I have to think doctors are generally more up on the latest developments and findings in their field than someone who works for a government office would be. Still, a government expression of the lack of utility of a particular procedure should give medical practitioners some cover in lawsuits even without tort reform. It could be seen as a back-door contributor to tort reform. Right now lawsuits are based on doctors failing to do something that is part of the accepted protocol. If the protocol changes because of what the government discovers about outcomes, then the doctor is in the clear. John Edwards got filthy rich convincing juries that things within standard protocols wasn't good enough.

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