- The below article is so incredible to me. The pHARM-us
(pharmaceutical industry) and medical doctors are in cahoots again with
the following website:
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- www.doctorsknow.us
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- I went to this site and was blocked when I attempted
to go to the section pertaining to individuals who have sued a doctor for
malpractice.
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- Wow! Anyone wanna be a member? Any MDs out there who
care to check this out for the hapless consumer?
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- BTW, when I went to the website and saw the display of
lab coated psychopaths on the home page, I felt sick -- do you????
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- Ingri
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- MDs Urged to Denounce Malpractice Site
Texas Group Urges Doctors To Denounce Internet Database
That Profiles Malpractice Plaintiffs
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- The Associated Press
http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040305_2234.html
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- DALLAS (AP) - A consumer
rights group Friday urged the Texas Medical Association to denounce an
Internet database that profiles patients who have sued doctors for malpractice.
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- Texas Watch said the profiling amounts to a blacklist.
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- The Web site www.doctorsknow.us boasts of being the first
company to profile plaintiffs, their lawyers and expert witnesses in malpractice
lawsuits in Texas and other states. For $4.95 a month, the site invites
doctors to use the service to "assess the risk of offering your services
to clients or potential clients."
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- A site slogan reads: "They can sue, but they can't
hide."
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- Dan Lambe, executive director of Texas Watch, said the
site is attempting to scare patients.
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- "This type of blacklisting runs counter to the Hippocratic
Oath to the ethical and moral goals and obligations of medical professionals,"
Lambe said.
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- Dr. John Shannon Jones, a radiologist who created the
database, could not be reached by The Associated Press for comment Friday.
He told The Wall Street Journal that people who sue doctors are going to
find their access to health care may be limited.
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- "That's a harsh thing to say, but this is a war,"
said Jones, who has settled two malpractice cases.
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- The database has about 50 members and has fewer than
100,000 patient names, the Journal reported. Jones said in most cases,
it doesn't indicate the outcome of a suit or whether the suit had merit
or was deemed frivolous.
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- That's one of the things that bothers Rick Beeson, 45,
of Wichita Falls, who is listed on the database because he and his wife
won a $9.4 million settlement in a malpractice case involving their 7-year-
old son.
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- The boy suffered severe brain damage, developed cerebral
palsy and has had five surgeries to repair his vision after a doctor and
hospital staff failed to treat his low blood sugar at birth, his father
said.
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- "We're against frivolous lawsuits like everyone
else is," Beeson said. "At the same time, the ones that are warranted,
people should be able to have the lawsuits and not be put on a blacklist.
Who else is going to regulate the doctors if we can't have civil lawsuits
against them?"
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- Bohn Allen, president-elect of the medical association,
declined to denounce the Web site, saying he'd only just heard of it and
is waiting to see if it generates any complaints.
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- "What this Web site represents is the bubbling up
of frustration that many doctors have had with frivolous lawsuits,"
Allen said. "Patients nowadays have a right and do get a lot of information
about doctors before they go see their doctors and there's certainly nothing
that should prevent doctors from being aware of the small number of patients
who abuse the system."
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- But Allen added that he doubts the site will get much
use.
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- "Doctors are not about restricting access to health
care and blacklisting patients," he said. "Doctors are about
improving access and taking care of sick folks."
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- _____
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- Taking care of sick folks -- for them is making sure
they can continue taking care of MORE of them... DON'T be a victim! as
the Yurko teeshirt slogan says.... www.freeyurko.bizland.com
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- Thanks to "Scrap" on the VacLib Yahoo Group
for making this important article known. It certainly corroborates with
my STRONG suggestion to only utilize the services of a naturopath or chiropractor
when needing the services of a medical professional. This is the protocol
I have used for all of my adult life and we do NOT have health insurance.
Never had it, don't want it, and NEVER will have it. My personal protest
of the "system". Anyway, I do have one child, a healthy 18 year
old who is doing just fine. No "disease-assurance" necessary
-- thankfully. We DID have a crisis Fall of 2002 which was overcome by
the grace of God working through my husband, Christie's step-father. I
will share this story with any of you if you need to know the power of
natural healing versus our current drug-based medical care system. Christie
will be graduating from junior college with an AA this summer -- at 18.
Had to get this off my chest so that more parents will opt "out"
rather than "in" the current system. Medical advice? Common Sense
at this point in time.
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- Ingri Cassel, director Vaccination Liberation P.O. Box
457 Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869 (208) 255-2307/ (888) 249-1421 vaclib@coldreams.com
mailto:vaclib@coldreams.com>
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- www.vaclib.org http://www.vaclib.org> "FreeYour
Mind.... From the Vaccine Paradigm"
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- "When we give government the power to make medical
decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies."
~ U.S. Representative Ron Paul
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