DrugBuyers.Com: Should the uninsured lay down and die?!

SnowPatrol,

I understand your point about OBGYN's, it's hard enough as it is to find one these days because of malpractice suits and the high insurance rates that they have to pay as a result of negligent doctors. But they're not all as innocent as you make them out to be, either. Neither are some of these doctors that I mentioned in my earlier post. I do think it's a shame that other doctors and OBGYN's have to pay high insurance rates as a result of other doctors negligence, but I also don't believe that putting a cap on malpractice suits is what is going to fix the health care industry.

Call me a liberal, I don't care, I'll wear that label proudly. And as I said before, I'm not usually one to get involved in debates such as this because I really can't be objective about it because I and others that I know in my own personal life have all been victims of bad medicine.

As for the poster whose father died as a result of negligence during surgery, my heart sincerely goes out to you and your family. You have every right to sue the gonads off of that doctor and the hospital that he had the surgery at. Not that it's going to ease your grief or bring your father back, but in cases like yours, yes, you do deserve to sue the pants off of these people, especially when they try to cover it up.

As for why OBGYN insurance is so high, talk to my friend who had the hemostat clamps sewn up inside of her for close to 3 months before they discovered what was causing her so much pain. And FYI, because of this "mistake" she wasn't able to carry another child full term and had 3 tubular pregnancies before she was finally forced to go through a hysterectomy at the ripe old age of 27.

Talk to my sister about how the OBGYN who was caring for her during her pregnancy suddenly went MIA just as she was going into labor and she had to deal with a complete stranger because they couldn't get ahold of this guy. Ask her about how they made her go through almost 48 hours of labor before they finally made the decision to give her a c-section, only to find out that my nephew had the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck.

These are LIFE and DEATH matters we are discussing here, not cold, hard statistics. But I'm finished posting in this thread, because it's obviously going to get me into trouble with some posters who disagree with me (which is fine, everyone's entitled to their opinions), and you can ask anyone here on the board, I am usually not this confrontational about anything. So I'm going to just leave it at that and once again, apologize if I've stepped on anyone's toes.

Eeyore

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~ R.I.P. Darrell Abbott 12/08/04