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| Title | Your answer lifts th | HelloAs with everyth | |||
| Date | 2014-02-18 08:17:28 | 2014-02-18 08:36:40 | |||
| Editor | Anonymous | Anonymous | |||
| Edit | Edit this version | Edit this version | |||
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| 2014-02-18 08:17:28 by Anonymous / Edit this version | 2014-02-18 08:36:40 by Anonymous / Edit this version | ||||
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| t | 1 | Your answer lifts the inieeltglnce of the debate. | t | 1 | HelloAs with everything in life if you can be true |
| > | tsd with small things, you can be entruetsd with t | ||||
| > | he bigger things,and of course there's best pract | ||||
| > | ice'. And at least if a doctor is a bone fide Data | ||||
| > | Contoller I won't feel disgruntled about being f | ||||
| > | leeced' when asked to hand over a350 for a mixed b | ||||
| > | undle of notes, by someone who cannot legitimately | ||||
| > | charge and the doctor won't be breaking the law. | ||||
| > | Re. settlements: invariably either Publicly funded | ||||
| > | (means-tested and need to measure up to a costs:b | ||||
| > | enefit ratio determined by the potential for succe | ||||
| > | ss), or on a Conditional Fee Agreement and requiri | ||||
| > | ng insurance. Both need a contingency of a375-100k | ||||
| > | to take a case to court! Neither side can sustain | ||||
| > | the astronomical court costs, so cases are settle | ||||
| > | d. The claimant never recovers the exent of his/he | ||||
| > | r true losses it's the way the system is designe | ||||
| > | d to discourage litigants. Surgeons DO NOT take re | ||||
| > | sponsibility for the headache of a tortious claim, | ||||
| > | that's what they pay their insurers at the GMC fo | ||||
| > | r. the insurers handle the claim and field it out | ||||
| > | to the lawyers at the endstage. The only responsib | ||||
| > | ility the surgeon will have, as a result, is payin | ||||
| > | g a higher premium, I'm afraid.As for surgeons tak | ||||
| > | ing responsibility: it is easier to be struck off/ | ||||
| > | restricted for financial irregularities or self-pr | ||||
| > | escribing by the Fitness to Practise unit at the G | ||||
| > | MC than it is for killing or maiming a patient. [T | ||||
| > | he constraints of this site do not permit me to gi | ||||
| > | ve names, but to illustrate this happened to a BAA | ||||
| > | PS specialist within the last 24 months; he did ho | ||||
| > | wever have a reputation for not being such a hot s | ||||
| > | urgeon - so maybe it's the GMC's way for administe | ||||
| > | ring Al Capone-type justice without undermining th | ||||
| > | e credibility with the public: Al Capone if you re | ||||
| > | call, went down for tax evasion as no one could pi | ||||
| > | n him down for for racketeering]. Agree v much abo | ||||
| > | ut the investing time to research properly. Also w | ||||
| > | ould add look at the stats: good names will appear | ||||
| > | over-and-over, not in a one-post-wonder where the | ||||
| > | missus has been asked to do her bit for the famil | ||||
| > | y business :] -Dear Dalek,completel | ||||
| > | y agree with you about the GMC being very strict o | ||||
| > | n some, not necessarily minor but more frequent ir | ||||
| > | regularities, and somehow disoriented when somethi | ||||
| > | ng major and/or unusual occurs. You have to give t | ||||
| > | hem credit for the fact that unusual irregularitie | ||||
| > | s need unusual measures, and that may not be easy. | ||||
| > | The court system is the same, I am afraid, for doc | ||||
| > | tors and any other professional and non-profession | ||||
| > | al figures. We may agree that it is not the faires | ||||
| > | t possible in theory, but it is the best we have i | ||||
| > | n practice and doctors cannot change it, whether t | ||||
| > | hey like it and plays to their advantage or not.F | ||||
| > | orums, I am still not sure that frequency is the b | ||||
| > | est measure of a surgeon's skill Snake | ||||
