On Tuesday 21 Oct 2008 1:03:06 am Perry E. Metzger wrote: > You know this for a fact, eh? I think you would have your medical > license pulled for doing something like that.
LOL this is precisely what I am talking about. The loosely wielded threat that "you can have your medical license pulled". The sword of Damocles that is shown at the drop of a hat. That is what causes this parody. It only goes to show that the law is an ass. A doctor can delay treatment by several minutes in a dire emergency and call for a "code" and the law will actually proetct him for doing that. Patients are, of course entirely at the mercy of the medical system and if doctors are humane - lucky for the patient. The problem is when the law says that the doctor's treatment becomes legally appropriate only if it conforms to a code, regardless of his training and experience. You gotta hope that your illness falls into a code that the doctor can justify. You know that. Your lawyr knows that. The doctor knows that. But does your disease know that it must conform to a code? Doctors outside the US would ROTFL at this situation if it wasn't so stupid. > > If the treatment is given without that code certification, the > > doctor can get sued. Succesfully. > > You can get sued for all sorts of things, but not for that, so far as > I know. What you know what you know. I will not say who my sources are - so you can take what I say FWIW. shiv
