Posted by rjk on July 30, 2002, at 6:42:39
In reply to Re: Why not what rjk?, posted by LostBoyinNC1 on July 28, 2002, at 15:31:59
> Most of the posters on this board are patients and consumers, not medical professionals. It would be impossible for anyone on here to definitively and decively tell you what exactly what wrong with your polypharmacy adventure. The best thing you can do is like I mentioned above. Get a second opinion from someone geographically outside your area who doesnt know your Pdoc. And contact an attorney who specializes in medical malpractice...maybe an attorney could direct you to more specialized help but its doubtful.
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> Psychiatric malpractice cases are notoriously subjective as I mentioned before and I hate to bust your bubble, but the odds are not in your favor. I know so, as Ive tried to do it myself.
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> Have you heard about Bush's recent speech here in Greensboro, NC? He came here to support Elizabeth Dole (Republican) in her upcoming NC Senate race. Jesse Helms is retiring in two years and Dole wants his spot in the NC Senate. Anyway, Bush specifically proposed tightening down the existing medical malpractice laws in the USA! He claims most medical malpractice suits are "junk" lawsuits and drive up the cost of medicine. What a crock. What really drives up the cost of medicine is the greedy insurance companies, who Bush is in bed with.
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> If you are a patient/consumer, things are not all red and rosy when it comes to medical malpractice lawsuits. The irony of it all is its extremely easy to get sued for things outside of medicine. But doctors and hospitals are pretty much protected thru layers of insurance industry anti-malpractice legislation.
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> Im not trying to criticize you or put you down, Im just trying to give you a realistic appraisal of the medical malpractice lawsuit situation in the USA. Its hard to do and even harder to win.I live in England and I know that it is not that easy here, but the advice that I have been given so far is that I have a good case. I am not suggesting that combining meds is not right for some people, but in my case I was clearly incorrectly diagnosed. At the end of the day, if I succeed then I will probably be doing everyone a big favour for two reasons. Firstly, because I want to prove the point that combining meds does have a risk attached to it. Secondly, it may make psychiatrists a little more responsible towards their approach to combining meds and mine was positively irresponsible!
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