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Póg Mo Thóin
Given the option between paying for insurance premiums to cover mistakes versus a system where licenses are suspended for mistakes, I'd doubt you find many Drs. that would favor your position.
Your system is completely draconian. If a physician makes a mistake he/she loses their livelihood for a certain period of time and maybe forever?
Who in the hell would want to go into a profession like that?
I suppose only people who are confident in their skills?
Who would wanna be a cop?
Who would wanna captain a supertanker?
Who would wanna design a bridge?
Who would wanna be a teacher?
Who wants to be an airline pilot?
AWWWWWWWwwwwwwww....POOOR FUCKING DOCTORS: any other licesed professional fucks up, and they get their liceses suspended or revolked; but phycisians are "special?"
You're saying that physicians are a little sloppy and that their work is inherently error prone, and the public had better just accept the premium on healthcare that allows this instead of holding Medical Doctors to the same standards every other professional must have.
Bullshit.
Okay fine. Just don't offer up your solution as a "fix". It would be a disaster. I'd leave medical school right now if I thought that the slightest error in judgment could cause me to lose my license.
But hey, we don't have enough Drs as it is, but I am sure your plan makes sense in some sort of alternate universe.
BTW, on average a Dr. get's sued 2-4 times in their career. Who is going to be left?
Well, in YOUR unviverse
A. you'd leave med school if you "thought that the slightest error in judgment could cause me to lose my license."
B. the fact that "the slightest error in judgment could cause" the death of another person, doesn't make you change your classes to pre-law.
OOOOps!!! Lawyers can be disbarred!!....
....perhaps getting an MBA is your best choice: Gurus in the Financial Sector seem to be immune from having to be accountable for their fuck-ups.
Just because a DR gets sued 2-4 times in their career, doesn't mean they've ever done anything wrong. It means that a Lawyer for the plaintiff thinks there's the possiblity of settling out of court with the insurance company.
Likewise, just because a DR is accused of malpractice, it doesn't mean their license will be suspended.
Frankly GTH, I think being an MD is a great profession that has been tortured by tort, and I wish you all the best in it. I'd rather be a simple ChemE, working in a low profile/secure/well-paying job in refineries where the worst that will happen is a quick Death from H2S poisoning.