Friday, April 18, 2008

love those lawyers

Just read about a Massivepooshits court reinstating a case where a man had an accident (automobile) allegedly due to a side effect of medications prescribed months before, and that the prescriber could be held liable. Now doctors will not be able to prescribe anything without looking over their shoulder. I for one have decided to follow each and every patient 24 hours a day that I have ever seen and make sure they take their medications as prescribed, and that they don't drive while taking any soporific medication (read:no more narcotics, whether you are in pain or not). Hooray for tort reform. That state, once the bastion of clear thinking people (granted, that was over 200 years ago) has slid off into the abyss of social/cultural relativistic marxist-based socialism. They can't fund their glorious 100% coverage health care, and they dug a gigantic 14 billion dollar hole where the roof leaks and the ceiling falls in. But they do have Teddy (give me the keys) Kennedy and that other "war hero".

Oh, and I can marry a dude there.

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  1. Whatever happened to holding people accountable for their actions? Now days everybody wants to blames someone else. Get in a car wreck? You just won the lottery! I'm sure we can find someone to sue!

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  2. Why don't you just read the PDR entry to each patient for every drug that you prescribe? That shouldn't take but 30 or 40 minutes a drug and you can document that you properly warned them of the side effects.

    Tort reform in Texas has been a HUGE success. Bush should have pushed for it nationally when he had the chance (Republican Congress). Now that the trial lawyers are back in charge of Congress, it'll never get done.

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  3. It seems that the "reasonable physician" standard for malpractice has no reasonable relation to reason or sanity.

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  4. Is the case where the guy went blind? Do you know the case ref?

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  5. i can marry a dude in massachussets? i'm moving!

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  6. Add their gun laws, and you've got a Cliffs Notes-ing of "why exi will never live in massamotherfuckin'pooshits."

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  7. Check this out. The American Trial Lawyer's Association has changed its name to The American Association for Justice. Does that come with a shovel?

    And don't read the PDR to the patient; have them listen to a tape of it, and then take a test on it (passing grade is 95%) before getting a prescription. Safety demands it!

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  8. the PDR is better than ambien for insomnia.

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  9. But Mass. is home to my two favorite inventions: Birth control pills and Fig Newtons.

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  10. I'd just like to remind you that our lovely "REPUBLICAN", and I use the term loosely, governor signed the universal health care coverage bill into existence.

    He also shoveled an inexorable amount of funding into that leaky, traffic-clogged pit of despair. Those funds were then funneled to some of the most corrupt officials to the Turnpike Authority in the history of the state that he, incidentally, helped appoint. I'm willing to bet that he had some of those very same funds funneled back to his campaign for president.

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  11. didn't know they had any republicans in mass? i must admit here that while i call myself a republican i find it hard to find anyone whose profession is politics to admire. i'm a conservative and forty years ago would have voted for JFK.

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  12. Taxachussets isn't that bad, Reagan carried the state in 80' and 84'. Never understood how it came to be so liberal. My Uncles from Wooster, I swear he came south because he likes arresting Blacks. Hmm maybe thats why Mass votes so reliably for democrats, the republicans all moved to Georgia.

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  13. frank,
    careful or the aclu will shut us down and picket outside our offices which are right next to dr deborah peel's offices where she practices.

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  14. Holy crap you're right, they're the American Association for Justice at justice.org. Thank God there's finally an address, now we can all find what we need from this bleak universe of despair!

    BTW, I just stumbled on your site and it's like coming home to the family I never had (sob).

    That's because my parents sell therapeutic magnets for a "living" while I spend ninety hours a week studying the various causes of painless jaundice.

    Y'all are awesome, keep it up. Thanks for doing your part to pre-jade a soon to be intern.

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  15. Well "Justice League" was already taken. What a lineup, Superman, Batman,Wonder Woman, the Flash, Green Lantern, and the Martian Manhunter.

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