I hope the lawyers Levin & Perconti and their family deliver babies at home. $3million dollars – Outrageous. I wonder what they had orig. asked for? My guess in excess if $ 12 million.
This article reads like a testimonial for Briskman & Briskman. It\’s horrible that this happened, but doctors aren\’t God and can\’t control everything. Sue everybody, and then wonder why health care costs are out of control and doctors are quitting obstetrics in droves.
Shoulder dystocia is usually an unpredictable obstetrical emergency that has to be dealth with to avoid brain damage. It can occur even with even avg size babies. Maybe Levin et al should try delivering babies for their co workers and family. Have to wonder if they jury liked the def. M.D. and or his attorneys. Jury fell hook, line & sinker. Hope there is appeal.
IMO – the parents deserve every penny of this award for their child who now has a permanent disability. These Doctors should have ordered an emergency C-section instead of putting the mother AND child\’s life at risk forcing the baby to be born this way.
I agree with the retired underwriter…. On the face of things, it looks to me as though the good doctor didn\’t perform the procedure properly. Sounds like malpractice to me. If this procedure is not altogether uncommon, all the more reason this is malpractice. They screwed up and a person will suffer for the rest of her life.
There are always two sides. Shoulder dystocia occurs in ABSENSE of malpractice. There is no \”option\” for a c-section most of the time it is discovered (the head is most of the way out already, what are you going to do, push it back in and out the c-section \”hole\”????).
yet another outrageous jury verdict in Cook County. What a surprise!
Yes, feel bad for the parents and the patient, but don\’t place blame where it doesn\’t belong.
An earlier comment was whether the jury liked the doctor or defense counsel. I wish that were far far off the mark, but from what I\’ve seen its right on, and falls both ways. Attractive young couple with adorable, crippled baby vs. doctor in suit and tie and defense counsel…
At age 54, after practicing Obstetrics since 1998, I no longer enjoy what I do because of the constant burden and worry of unjustified litigation. It is the Women of America who will be the ultimate losers in this Lawyer Game…..in 10-15 years, there will be no physicians willing to continue to deal with the legal crap-shoot involved in caring for at-risk patients….Sad, but true.
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I hope the lawyers Levin & Perconti and their family deliver babies at home. $3million dollars – Outrageous. I wonder what they had orig. asked for? My guess in excess if $ 12 million.
Perhaps no one is to blame.
This article reads like a testimonial for Briskman & Briskman. It\’s horrible that this happened, but doctors aren\’t God and can\’t control everything. Sue everybody, and then wonder why health care costs are out of control and doctors are quitting obstetrics in droves.
Shoulder dystocia is usually an unpredictable obstetrical emergency that has to be dealth with to avoid brain damage. It can occur even with even avg size babies. Maybe Levin et al should try delivering babies for their co workers and family. Have to wonder if they jury liked the def. M.D. and or his attorneys. Jury fell hook, line & sinker. Hope there is appeal.
If you are a doctor facing a case of shoulder dystocia, you have two choices:
1) Decline to proceed further and get sued.
2) Proceed and get sued.
IMO – the parents deserve every penny of this award for their child who now has a permanent disability. These Doctors should have ordered an emergency C-section instead of putting the mother AND child\’s life at risk forcing the baby to be born this way.
I agree with the retired underwriter…. On the face of things, it looks to me as though the good doctor didn\’t perform the procedure properly. Sounds like malpractice to me. If this procedure is not altogether uncommon, all the more reason this is malpractice. They screwed up and a person will suffer for the rest of her life.
There are always two sides. Shoulder dystocia occurs in ABSENSE of malpractice. There is no \”option\” for a c-section most of the time it is discovered (the head is most of the way out already, what are you going to do, push it back in and out the c-section \”hole\”????).
yet another outrageous jury verdict in Cook County. What a surprise!
Yes, feel bad for the parents and the patient, but don\’t place blame where it doesn\’t belong.
An earlier comment was whether the jury liked the doctor or defense counsel. I wish that were far far off the mark, but from what I\’ve seen its right on, and falls both ways. Attractive young couple with adorable, crippled baby vs. doctor in suit and tie and defense counsel…
At age 54, after practicing Obstetrics since 1998, I no longer enjoy what I do because of the constant burden and worry of unjustified litigation. It is the Women of America who will be the ultimate losers in this Lawyer Game…..in 10-15 years, there will be no physicians willing to continue to deal with the legal crap-shoot involved in caring for at-risk patients….Sad, but true.