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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
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.
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I would first attempt to discover whether the MD you are considering bringing pain to supports the SC MD, or thinks the SC MD is a crackpot asshole. As a transactional lawyer in a generally non-adversarial area, I hate when I get tarred with the brush intended for litigators, who are all assholes and deserve to die. Or whatever.
Other than that, charming sentiment. You go, girl.
