tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713104.post-1117586485827513012005-05-31T20:23:00.000-04:002005-05-31T20:41:25.856-04:00<a href="http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2005/05/30/daily7.html">"Med-Mal fears have doctors on the defensive, study says"</a><br /><br />Forgive me, please, but this headline from the Pittsburgh Business Times makes me wonder who funded a <i><b>study</b></i> to point out the obvious. Of course you're going to be defensive... In this country, doctors have become the equivalent of wounded antelope in a land populated heavily by hyenas. (<--- i won't dignify that breed of self-serving "human" by calling them lions) Innocent doctors are preyed upon by opportunistic parasites.<br /><br />Of course there are doctors who deserve to be strung up by their thumbs. In my opinion, though, healthcare professionals need to do a better job of policing their own-- how can judges and juries of totally uneducated people be expected to make fair decisions in these cases?<br /><br />Our society is all together too litigious- People act as though medical malpractice suits are a unique crisis, when in fact there are many other groups facing similar crises. Private citizens, real-estate and property owners, landlords, even branches of the government. <b>This litigiousness is symptomatic of societal decay. We are drowning by inches in Narcissus' pool.</b><br /><br /><hr><hr><br /><br /><br />Oh, and...... Where I come from, it's just called <b>CYA</b> medicine, not what the Pittsburgh writer gently terms as "defensive medicine".bronwynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067562772006169033noreply@blogger.com