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To: i-node who wrote (199984)	5/3/2009 10:31:41 PM
From: James Hutton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

"They're poor alright. If you meant, "not very good", I couldn't say as I've never had need for an OB/GYN's services. But one closed his practice down; the other is still struggling. I will tell you that the almost every physician gets slammed with malpractice suit(s) somewhere along the line. I know well a chief of surgery at a pretty major hospital who was sued about 10 years ago for an alleged "mistake". I don't know whether he actually made the mistake or not, but I know the suit was settled and he moved on with his life. It is the nature of medical practice that sooner or later many are going to get it." 1. I meant "poor" in terms of quality. 2. Fact is in our society if you make a professional mistake - and because professionals are human, they will likely make a mistake sometime in their career - that damages another person, a lawsuit will likely ensue. That's why there is professional malpractice coverage. Unfortunately, some professionals make more mistakes than others and they pay higher insurance premiums. Should those professionals who make more mistakes than others stay in business? Why should they be any different than someone who makes lousy cars or lousy pizza? Do you know the margin that insurers make on professional malpractice coverage versus other types of coverage, say auto insurance? Have you ever checked to see the correlation between declining interest rates - part of the profit calculus for insurers - and increasing malpractice premiums? Lots of issues out there on this subject. Doctors are not as a class innocent victims.