Reply #4: Since statistics are hard to find on this issue [View All]

[lyonn]

This report is very important. My husband is a suburban atty. that a few times in his career represented a patient who was injured due to what they felt was extreme negligence by their medical provider. Not long ago my husband and his fellow atty. went to a neighboring town to take depositions in a med. mal. case. My husband drove while the defense firm, representing the medical providers, used a Lear Jet along with several investigative type people. Trust me, the defense firms have all the $$ in the world to defend while many small law firm must watch their cost. It is easy to spend $50,000. on just about any malpractice case. Usually much more. The defense has all the hired guns, meaning doctors to testify for the doctor. Not so if you are suing a Dr. or hosp. The medical profession should police themselves and that should help with this problem. But I feel the insurance companies are ripping the Drs. off, along with the rest of us with their questionable statistics. The poor doctors are running scared when they treat a patient and often over treat because of this. We all suffer. We need more legislation covering the actions of all corps. Never happen in this administration. We will get more government controlled corporate legislation instead of "less govt." as they use as their mantra.