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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (61683)	8/31/2009 1:00:08 AM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Tort reform is an age-old ploy. but the point of it is... how do you both cap things so that people can practice medicine, but also safeguard patients (us) from doctors who really screw up because they suck? not because they make a mistake tho they are good docotrs, but because they suck? when repubs talk of tort reform, it is generally with the idea of taking safeguards away from patients. there is a reason to sue. yes, there should be reasonable things given... a lifetime of care, not some extra supra millions. will they agree to that? insurance companies selling across statelines? if we have the public option, why not. will they go for that compromise?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (61683)	8/31/2009 1:07:20 AM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

And Chinu, my sister who was in a coma for all those weeks, it was because of the doctors first ignoring her in the ER, and then misdiagnozing, and then standing by that mistake and insisting to us that she drank... what's that stuff you put in your car? antifreeze. seriously. she was an rn before she lost her sight. she knows what it does. she is a diabetic. and a pain whimp. she could od on insulin. she so would not drink antifreeze. but noooooooooo. because of their continued mistakes, they insisted to us that is what happened. and because of that, they treated her improperly, deepening and prolonging her coma. we had to fight... loud nasty fights... to get them to change their treatment for what had actually happened. acidosis or some such that happens to diabetics at times. anyways... however... as a result of her prolonged coma and intubation, her throat collapsed and she now has a stint longer than any stint they at the time thought was possible. again they said she would die. so of course, this ruined her chances to work after that, which she had planned on even after her loss of sight. but all the lawyers told her not to bother to sue. she'd never win against them. even though it was their fault. what tort reform??? you hear of the occasion case someone wins against a hospital. they are few and far between. we already have 'tort reform'. you are at the mercy of the hospital. if they fak up, fak you and live with it. that is already done, Chinu. I'm not sure what bone they want tossed to them on this now. perhaps they could explain it, and explain it to my sister and others like her.