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Medical malpractice is going to effect my future |
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by Maya Patterson
Email: lori (nospam) ojctech.com (unverified!) |
14 Nov 2004
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Doctors are paying too much money to practice medicine and lawyers are the only ones benefiting. |
Is it right to sue a well-trained, competent doctor? E.N. Hetherington, in his letter to the News Gazette titled Malpractice Suits Don’t Protect Patients, seems to think no. I called him and interestingly enough he is a doctor and he’s been sued three times. Paul Manion, a lawyer, also wrote a letter to the News Gazette. When I called him, he thought that everything is right the way it is.
What we want to accomplish is to get health care costs lower and health care quality better. But our current system is making doctors pay lots of money and lawyers earn lots of money. Also, health care costs are going crazy high and health care quality is not so good. The only ones that seem to get the benefit of this system are the lawyers. But I do think there needs to be a way to make sure doctors are well trained and give good care.
What if, when doctors get sued, the money that they pay goes to a course of better training? I think there should be a maximum amount of money lawyers should sue doctors for and much of the money, if the lawsuit is won, should go to improving health care.
This affects me as a child because my mom and dad have to spend a lot of money on health care and we can’t get a lot of other important things we need. It also affects me because it is very hard to get a good doctor now. I had a very good doctor but she moved and we have tried very many doctors and it doesn’t seem they take their job very seriously. I just heard that a good doctor in our town is retiring because he had to pay $250,000 for malpractice insurance last year and he can’t afford to keep practicing as a doctor. That’s probably why we can’t find a very good doctor. The malpractice problem needs to get solved very soon, or who knows what our futures are going to be like. |
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