Tort reform?

wolf · 08-30-2004, 03:07 PM

Psychiatric Malpractice insurance is about the cheapest to buy, I believe, because it's so difficult to prove damage. When one can display a physical deformity caused by a physician, it's pretty clear. Proving that someone is fucked up worse than when you started treatment with them in psychiatry is nigh impossible (even in the cases of recovered/false memory).

The personal effect of the malpractice boondoggle in PA is that I lost out on a raise ... by way of "belt-tightening" because the hospital which had been paying a couple hundred grand in malpractice insurance was suddenly having to pay around $2 Million per year.

Sometimes we put the "non" in "non-profit."

08-30-2004, 03:07 PM	#1
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Psychiatric Malpractice insurance is about the cheapest to buy, I believe, because it's so difficult to prove damage. When one can display a physical deformity caused by a physician, it's pretty clear. Proving that someone is fucked up worse than when you started treatment with them in psychiatry is nigh impossible (even in the cases of recovered/false memory). The personal effect of the malpractice boondoggle in PA is that I lost out on a raise ... by way of "belt-tightening" because the hospital which had been paying a couple hundred grand in malpractice insurance was suddenly having to pay around $2 Million per year. Sometimes we put the "non" in "non-profit." __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

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