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To: i-node who wrote (173)	11/9/2002 2:18:34 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7936

My brother and his wife are both docs, she's an OBGYN, and are both organizing to get legislation to fix this distortion. In Pennsylvania the insurance payments are higher than the docs income partly due to legislation favoring trial lawyers. Docs are leaving in droves to Georgia and elsewhere, or retiring. In California I know a doc who is "going bare", skipping insurance altogether. That's a great idea for docs who want to be docs. Here's what that does: Any predatory lawyer takes one look at a case against a doc who doesn't have insurance and says, "what?", then says to the client, "sorry, better settle for getting better, instead of getting even". Any doc who screws up has to be held accountable and thrown out if necessary, but by the medical boards instead of predatory lawyers, who don't care about merit in our adversarial legal system, only maximum fear and maximum reward. (Kind of like our current administration!). Docs who don't have insurance can lock up their house and any other assets in a pension fund like OJ Simpson's and be judgement-proof. The result is that you hire a doc for competence not future judgement. This doesn't work in large hospitals or HMOs like my brother and his wife, they just get lower salaries, higher workload, and less ability to treat patients due to constricted procedural codes. This doesn't fix the pharmacy companies' scam, either, but it helps to order drugs from Canada.