A big problem is most medical training is profit driven, at the expense of patient health, which means doctors would have to re learn almost everything. One size fits all makes medical practice easy, and when patients get worse, doctors can always take comfort in that they followed the book. An example is cholesterol. Cholesterol has not…
A big problem is most medical training is profit driven, at the expense of patient health, which means doctors would have to re learn almost everything. One size fits all makes medical practice easy, and when patients get worse, doctors can always take comfort in that they followed the book.
An example is cholesterol. Cholesterol has nothing to do with heart disease. Old people with very high cholesterol live the longest. A doctor is required by the standard of care to prescribe statins in the case of high cholesterol. Statins are a nightmare drug with no benefit, and the adverse effects mimic old age (muscle pain and weakness, memory loss & 100's more nasty problems). If a doctor does not follow the official standard of care, they can be sued, and they would probably lose because they did not follow the standard of care, even though the standard of care causes harm.
I encourage everyone to exit the medical system, except for emergencies & things that can't be resolved in other ways. Learn how to care of yourselves, and find good holistic practitioners.
Dr. John et all: I read and watched the recent rerun (dated March 18 found in the censored articles library at mercola.com) of Dr. Joe Mercola's April 2022 newsletter on statins. YES, they're a nightmare. Take 'em and you essentially accelerate your aging process, then watch yourself grow older faster. Take 'em and you stop your body's ability to make ketones (bye bye energy and healthy weight loss) and a whole lot more. Then there's Aseem Malhotra's lecture about this, too. Problem is finding physicians who truly do understand REAL health and practice that!
I already have THREE L.Ac.s I use. There are virtually NO holistic practitioner M.D.s here in one of The most expensive counties in the U.S. b.c. all these EmDeities go in wanting to have a cushy life with lots of money, fine homes, fancy cars, fancy schools for their kids and second and third non-resident real estate for fun and profit. Physicians are now for the most part acting like a bunch of arrogant narcissists trying to make mommy and daddy and the grandparents from the old country happy with their Big Phat Degrees from Pfizer while looking utterly ethically and morally BANKRUPT. ENOUGH ALREADY-- CUT IT OUT!!
I appreciate your comments and the conundrum you described. But it is false.
As a forensic psychologist I spent over 12 years working nationally as a trial consultant and the reality is that it is very hard to sue doctors because there's very little money it in and attorneys won't take cases that don't offer at least a million in likely (probable) damages and the more millions the better. In most states, medical and malpractice insurance lobbyists were successful in getting laws passed that CAP damages for pain and suffering. It was already difficult to win cases against doctors unless there was a gross injury and the doctor's work fell far far below the standard of care. Lawyers only take the cases where these is permanent damage to a malpractice victim that necessitates a future lifetime of care involving tens of millions of dollars, from which the attorneys will cut their 35 to 40 percent fees.
After all that, juries tend to side with doctors unless they've done something offensive, like carve their initials into someone's ovaries. Its easy for insurance companies to get experts to say that the doctor did nothing wrong. Juries can heartlessly ignore a plaintiff's injuries unless the sun, moon and stars of victimization all line up and they feel more for the victim-plaintiff than they do for the defendant doctor AKA God.
I would like to say that Doctors make lousy witnesses (because it's true and because it's so easy for opposing counsel to trip them up), but that is why they are usually never allowed to testify. I would favor a law that forced Doctors to testify to enable jurors to see what total sanctimonious god-complex bastards they can be.
Yes, you'd have to sue the Corporate front-man before you get to the eedjot flunky doing their dirty work. It's wishful thinking that we'd live to see the day when medical schools didn't need to tell their students that 85% of the patients they see are there because of physician-caused reasons.
" ... it is very hard to sue doctors because there's very little money it in and attorneys won't take cases that don't offer at least a million in likely (probable) damages and the more millions the better."
Another issue is that some states precondition a med-mal action on an affidavit of merit from another doctor in the same area of specialization stating that the doctor has reviewed the case and is of the professional medical opinion that there has been a breach of the applicable standard of care. This has essentially gutted med-mal actions in states like Michigan because doctors are increasingly reluctant to acting as the liability expert against a fellow medical professional.
A big problem is most medical training is profit driven, at the expense of patient health, which means doctors would have to re learn almost everything. One size fits all makes medical practice easy, and when patients get worse, doctors can always take comfort in that they followed the book.
An example is cholesterol. Cholesterol has nothing to do with heart disease. Old people with very high cholesterol live the longest. A doctor is required by the standard of care to prescribe statins in the case of high cholesterol. Statins are a nightmare drug with no benefit, and the adverse effects mimic old age (muscle pain and weakness, memory loss & 100's more nasty problems). If a doctor does not follow the official standard of care, they can be sued, and they would probably lose because they did not follow the standard of care, even though the standard of care causes harm.
I encourage everyone to exit the medical system, except for emergencies & things that can't be resolved in other ways. Learn how to care of yourselves, and find good holistic practitioners.
Dr. John et all: I read and watched the recent rerun (dated March 18 found in the censored articles library at mercola.com) of Dr. Joe Mercola's April 2022 newsletter on statins. YES, they're a nightmare. Take 'em and you essentially accelerate your aging process, then watch yourself grow older faster. Take 'em and you stop your body's ability to make ketones (bye bye energy and healthy weight loss) and a whole lot more. Then there's Aseem Malhotra's lecture about this, too. Problem is finding physicians who truly do understand REAL health and practice that!
I already have THREE L.Ac.s I use. There are virtually NO holistic practitioner M.D.s here in one of The most expensive counties in the U.S. b.c. all these EmDeities go in wanting to have a cushy life with lots of money, fine homes, fancy cars, fancy schools for their kids and second and third non-resident real estate for fun and profit. Physicians are now for the most part acting like a bunch of arrogant narcissists trying to make mommy and daddy and the grandparents from the old country happy with their Big Phat Degrees from Pfizer while looking utterly ethically and morally BANKRUPT. ENOUGH ALREADY-- CUT IT OUT!!
I appreciate your comments and the conundrum you described. But it is false.
As a forensic psychologist I spent over 12 years working nationally as a trial consultant and the reality is that it is very hard to sue doctors because there's very little money it in and attorneys won't take cases that don't offer at least a million in likely (probable) damages and the more millions the better. In most states, medical and malpractice insurance lobbyists were successful in getting laws passed that CAP damages for pain and suffering. It was already difficult to win cases against doctors unless there was a gross injury and the doctor's work fell far far below the standard of care. Lawyers only take the cases where these is permanent damage to a malpractice victim that necessitates a future lifetime of care involving tens of millions of dollars, from which the attorneys will cut their 35 to 40 percent fees.
After all that, juries tend to side with doctors unless they've done something offensive, like carve their initials into someone's ovaries. Its easy for insurance companies to get experts to say that the doctor did nothing wrong. Juries can heartlessly ignore a plaintiff's injuries unless the sun, moon and stars of victimization all line up and they feel more for the victim-plaintiff than they do for the defendant doctor AKA God.
I would like to say that Doctors make lousy witnesses (because it's true and because it's so easy for opposing counsel to trip them up), but that is why they are usually never allowed to testify. I would favor a law that forced Doctors to testify to enable jurors to see what total sanctimonious god-complex bastards they can be.
Thanks for your explanation!
Yes, you'd have to sue the Corporate front-man before you get to the eedjot flunky doing their dirty work. It's wishful thinking that we'd live to see the day when medical schools didn't need to tell their students that 85% of the patients they see are there because of physician-caused reasons.
" ... it is very hard to sue doctors because there's very little money it in and attorneys won't take cases that don't offer at least a million in likely (probable) damages and the more millions the better."
Another issue is that some states precondition a med-mal action on an affidavit of merit from another doctor in the same area of specialization stating that the doctor has reviewed the case and is of the professional medical opinion that there has been a breach of the applicable standard of care. This has essentially gutted med-mal actions in states like Michigan because doctors are increasingly reluctant to acting as the liability expert against a fellow medical professional.
Very true. I had forgotten about that.
And doctors just love testifying against each other.
Its a Hired Gun situation and that means you usually have to hire from out-of-town if not out-of-state.
More $$$Barriers to MedMal Suits.