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Dragonfighter wrote:Under honesty is the best policy heading:

I forget which hospital but IIRC it is in Houston adopted a doctrine of absolute disclosure. If the wrong thing was prescribed, the wrong procedure performed, surgery botched then they would immediately tell the patient/family of what happened. The news article at the time said their malpractrice suits dropped by nearly 95%. It's things like what happened to O3 that makes you want to draw and quarter these yahoos. God forbid they should bite the pharmaceutical hand that's padding their wallets.

The best part is that there are tens of 1000's of lawsuits pending on this drug and it is still being prescribed! Your right about one thing. It makes a feller want to go Old Testament on the Doctors involved. They are fortunate I am more civilized than I act like I am.

I normally don't offer to share personal information on the forum but since folks have brought up tort reform i think I will give everyone a first hand account of why we must be careful when protecting negligent Doctors.

Last July my daughter was prescribed a medication by her Doctor. Her Doctor has been her Doctor for a few years. When my daughter was fourteen years old she lost the vision in here right eye due to an ailment called Optic Neuritis. After taking this medication for three months her left eye lost vision. Thinking it was optic nueritis we rushed her to the emergency room and started her on the traditional treatment. The vision came back. The hospital did 20,000.00 dollars in procedures in an effort to find out what was going on. The symptoms did not appear to be optic neuritis. yep...20K and some of the tests seemed to have nothing to do with her eyes or other conditions that would cause this to happen. They even tested her for a disease that only Asians can get. We ain't asian . The second day in the hospital the nurse, while looking at my daughters chart, says hey... I am not suppose to say anything to patients but one of the medications you have been taking has been known to cause blood clots in the eyes. Guess what, that was what was causing the vision loss. We immediately brought this to the attention of the neurologist the hospital assigned and the internist, who acted as if he was on commission with all the tests he recommended. Both vehemently denied that said medication could cause these problems and said it had to be something else. well she went home and in two weeks the vision problem started again. back we went only this time my daughter quit taking said medication. The treatments brought her vision back but her optic nerve is now damaged in that eye. If these doctors had of told us when we asked that the side affects from said medication could cause this, she would have quit the medication then and not damaged her eye further. The info on said medication is out there for the world to see. Heck...we found it on the internet. Had to dig as the company that makes it does not make it easy to find.

My point in telling this story is that when Doctors or Hospitals act in a negligent manner, they need to pay out the wazoo. This medication is very clear about certain folks not taking it and my daughter is one of the types.

The Annoyed Man wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote:I hate that woman so much I could not click the play button. She sickens me with disgust every time I see her. Odumbell is beginning too do the same thing for me.

What she says is:

But we have to pass the bill so that we can, uh, find out what is in it.

She's dumber than a mud fence, which shows that you can go a long way on just being vicious without much smarts.

Thank you for sparing me the misery of watching that clown. It sounds like she is giving us a Christmas present. "Have to open it up to see what it is". Oh goody... I just can't wait! The problem is, we all know it is an over sized sweater with a big kitten embroidered on the back.

I hate that woman so much I could not click the play button. She sickens me with disgust every time I see her. Odumbell is beginning too do the same thing for me.

marksiwel wrote:Why are we doing this instead of Fixing Insurance companies?

Exactly!

Nobody is allowed to know what it is all about. Your not even suppose to ask what it is all about. I could actually turn you in and you would be forced into re-education camp and if you didn't come around to the right way of thinking, you could face being lobotomized, you would never again question the chosen one.

We are suppose to just take Odumbells word for it that it is going to put us one step closer to the Utopian state he and the other L.T.'s have always dreamed of.