Apologies in advance if this strikes people as a Politics issue, but there's an MD in South Carolina who's
asking the AMA for an ethics ruling that he and others can refuse medical treatment to med-mal lawyers, their spouses, and their children. This proposal would create a "carve out" to the Hippocratic Oath that has for 2,500 years made doctors better and less selfish than lawyers.
If the linked NPR story is the same one I heard this morning, there's also an "insurance" scheme under which MDs can pay yearly for pre-paid legal services to file retributive counterclaims against former patients who allege negligence in medical treatment. (The story is silent on this, but I'll wager they're writing it off as a business expense.)
I'm not a med-mal lawyer, but if this passes the AMA I will dedicate a decent portion of my life to bringing whatever pain I can to MDs and their spouses and their children. That includes the ones to whom I am related.
