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sue a doctor
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Asked by “curlyboy”
can u suit a doctor even if the damage wasn’t permanent and how much time do you have to do it?
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Dear “curlyboy”:
Well, I am not a doc, lawyer, nore do I play one on tv. And, I think it was Mark Twain or Will Rogers or some other cynic said that “medicine is the art of amusing the patient while the body heals itself”. Medicine is a joke! On the people who think that docs ain’t human.
As I understand your question, you’d like to sue a doc for a non-fatal not-permanent injury. Right?
Let me share what happened to me. My wife actually. She had a heart attack and was treated at prestigious Princeton Hospital. They really blew it. They pumped her full of fluids, kept her overnight, and sent her home. She literally gained 13 pounds in less than two days. And she felt like shit. I wasn’t happy so we went to our family doc, who I had never been impressed with, but recognized she was in deep kimshi (Korean smelly cabbage). He sent her right to the local ER, Don’t pass go; don’t collect 200$. They diagnosed her as in congestive heart failure with complications. A thirty day stay and a lot of testing and treatments. They never figured out what her original problem but she was walking and talking. We were pissed to put it mildly. And, consulted with our lawyer. His advice “no harm; no foul”. Non fatal; non permanent; injury debate able. And I had our GP and her cardiologist volunteering to testify because they were upset hat another doctor would make her their problem. She was retired and didn’t die, so he said we might get some “chump change” and have to pay big bux to get it into court. So, we dropped it.
My advice is to “fuggetboutit”.
You can’t possibly be as upset as I was. I’d like to go down to Pton and thrash both cardio docs within an inch of bodily arm. But, some times you just have to cut your losses.
Sorry, wish I could share a better advice, but my advice my answer, is to just move on.
Hope this helps. I’m interested how it works out for you. Drop me a note sometime. My blog may have helpful “stuff”.
Ferdinand J. Reinke
Kendall Park, NJ 08824
SOURCE
My personal experience
http://tinyurl.com/lxu93
http://www.reinkefaceslife.com/…
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