Allan raises some good points. Throwing money at the survivors doesn’t accomplish anything in terms of punishing the wrongdoer or preventing future incidents. In spite of the plaintiffs saying “you can’t put a price on the loss of our loved one”, that’s exactly what they’ve done. “Mary died so we might as well get some some money so we can feel better.” Let’s be honest, the system makes no sense.
Family Member, it is rather presumptuous to think that nobody posting here has lost a loved-one while the loved one was receiving medical care.
And nothing in the article says either doctor was new at performing this type of procedure. Their expertise in any field is not mentioned.
From the information given this does not look like malpractice. It looks like “bad things happen”. That’s why people should carry life insurance. For some reason America seems to think that professionals must perform to perfection every time or they are committing malpractice and that’s not the way it’s supposed to be. Professionals are allowed to be human and make mistakes; and with doctors that sometimes means people will die. It’s when they intentionally do something wrong or what they do is so bone-headed that nobody in the profession could condone the action that it becomes malpractice. I just don’t see that in this article.
Who cares if it was a family member or not, emotion does not belong in the Court system. Using that type of logic is so tired and just doesn’t apply. I will still judge these money grubbers that “need” $12M to find closure. It’s pure B.S.
To lastbat, try reading one of the other many articles written about this lawsuit. In the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald, it clearly stated that the surgeon had never performed this surgery before. It also says that the doctor did not follow protocol when he closer her back up with air trapped in her stomach. She should have been left open until the cause of the air was determined, instead of closed back up to allow all the air to accumulate.
For those of you that did not read the entire article (some papers only posted a paragraph), the doctor that performed the surgery had NEVER treated this condition on a thyroid before. Therefore, he had NO BUSINESS operating on her thyroid. It is common practice that when you make an incision to release air, you are not supposed to close the patient back up. This is in the larger articles. Yet, both doctors closed the patient, but she still had so much air in her that the trapped air caused internal organs to bleed. Simple case, they made a BAD decision to close her. Simple procedure, but they didn’t know what they were doing!!
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Allan raises some good points. Throwing money at the survivors doesn’t accomplish anything in terms of punishing the wrongdoer or preventing future incidents. In spite of the plaintiffs saying “you can’t put a price on the loss of our loved one”, that’s exactly what they’ve done. “Mary died so we might as well get some some money so we can feel better.” Let’s be honest, the system makes no sense.
Family Member, it is rather presumptuous to think that nobody posting here has lost a loved-one while the loved one was receiving medical care.
And nothing in the article says either doctor was new at performing this type of procedure. Their expertise in any field is not mentioned.
From the information given this does not look like malpractice. It looks like “bad things happen”. That’s why people should carry life insurance. For some reason America seems to think that professionals must perform to perfection every time or they are committing malpractice and that’s not the way it’s supposed to be. Professionals are allowed to be human and make mistakes; and with doctors that sometimes means people will die. It’s when they intentionally do something wrong or what they do is so bone-headed that nobody in the profession could condone the action that it becomes malpractice. I just don’t see that in this article.
Who cares if it was a family member or not, emotion does not belong in the Court system. Using that type of logic is so tired and just doesn’t apply. I will still judge these money grubbers that “need” $12M to find closure. It’s pure B.S.
To lastbat, try reading one of the other many articles written about this lawsuit. In the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald, it clearly stated that the surgeon had never performed this surgery before. It also says that the doctor did not follow protocol when he closer her back up with air trapped in her stomach. She should have been left open until the cause of the air was determined, instead of closed back up to allow all the air to accumulate.
For those of you that did not read the entire article (some papers only posted a paragraph), the doctor that performed the surgery had NEVER treated this condition on a thyroid before. Therefore, he had NO BUSINESS operating on her thyroid. It is common practice that when you make an incision to release air, you are not supposed to close the patient back up. This is in the larger articles. Yet, both doctors closed the patient, but she still had so much air in her that the trapped air caused internal organs to bleed. Simple case, they made a BAD decision to close her. Simple procedure, but they didn’t know what they were doing!!