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Posted by: MyWayOnNow 3 months, 2 weeks ago

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In 40 years as a highly regarded cancer surgeon, Dr. Tapas K. Das Gupta had never made a mistake like this. As with any doctor, there had been occasional errors in diagnosis or judgment. But never, he said, had he opened up a patient and removed the wrong sliver of tissue, in this case a segment of the eighth rib instead of the ninth.

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Justice4All3 months, 2 weeks ago

The lawyers aren't going to like this at all. They get rich off the medical system and any attempt to improve the quality of medical care or reduce costs associated with malpractice will take money out of the lawyers hands.
The lawyers want to create as confrontational environment as possible. That will make the most money for them.
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Justice4All3 months, 2 weeks ago

The lawyers aren't going to like this...
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bill29363 months, 2 weeks ago

Maybe this is why this statement was put in the article:
Before they became presidential rivals, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, both Democrats, co-sponsored federal legislation in 2005 that would have made apologies inadmissible. The measure died in a committee under Republican control. Mrs. Clinton included the measure in her campaign platform but did not reintroduce it when the Democrats took power in 2007.
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coreyspring3 months, 2 weeks ago

While kind of off-topic, I think I remember an episode or two of Scrubs that was like this where Dr. Reed apologized to her patient after she misdiagnosed him or something like that. I can;t for the life of me remember what the resolution to that story was, though.
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