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Body:	HelloAs with everything in life if you can be truetsd with small things, you can be entruetsd with the bigger things,and of course there's best practice'. And at least if a doctor is a bone fide Data Contoller I won't feel disgruntled about being fleeced' when asked to hand over a350 for a mixed bundle 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:benefit ratio determined by the potential for success), or on a Conditional Fee Agreement and requiring 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 settled. The claimant never recovers the exent of his/her true losses it's the way the system is designed to discourage litigants. Surgeons DO NOT take responsibility for the headache of a tortious claim, that's what they pay their insurers at the GMC for. the insurers handle the claim and field it out to the lawyers at the endstage. The only responsibility the surgeon will have, as a result, is paying a higher premium, I'm afraid.As for surgeons taking responsibility: it is easier to be struck off/restricted for financial irregularities or self-prescribing by the Fitness to Practise unit at the GMC than it is for killing or maiming a patient. [The constraints of this site do not permit me to give names, but to illustrate this happened to a BAAPS specialist within the last 24 months; he did however have a reputation for not being such a hot surgeon - so maybe it's the GMC's way for administering Al Capone-type justice without undermining the credibility with the public: Al Capone if you recall, went down for tax evasion as no one could pin him down for for racketeering]. Agree v much about the investing time to research properly. Also would 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 family business :] -Dear Dalek,completely agree with you about the GMC being very strict on some, not necessarily minor but more frequent irregularities, and somehow disoriented when something major and/or unusual occurs. You have to give them credit for the fact that unusual irregularities need unusual measures, and that may not be easy.The court system is the same, I am afraid, for doctors and any other professional and non-professional figures. We may agree that it is not the fairest possible in theory, but it is the best we have in practice and doctors cannot change it, whether they like it and plays to their advantage or not.Forums, I am still not sure that frequency is the best measure of a surgeon's skill Snake
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