Lawyer hits the jackpot!!!

[Fat & Sassy]

I'm actually sober and lacking the confidence to confront your superior intellect....

Blaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaahaaaahaa....... Just kidden cupcake...

You and Saint's bickering reminded me of a skit Dennis Miller and Chris Farley use to do on SNL... Miller would sit there and verbally torture Farley but Chris just kept begging for more... Hilarious......

I drink Miller Lite, and Crown Royal and the quantities mentioned above wouldn't get my wife tipsy....

Full Blooded Irish...

The Big East will eat Bobby Higgins alive.. He'll have another attact w/ in 2yrs...

Actually, I do have to poop...

Later,

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

"Freeze, the only thing you have proven to know on these boards is how to cut and paste"

Eddie what is that irks you liberals about posting supported evidence or facts???

As I stated before how do you weigh your opinions so highly over documentation when it is known fact your opinions can't logically determine a 50/50 proposition??

Let me give you a little basic 101 on logic

Edwards logic--continuely dog the insurance industry when they pay 99.9 of your earnings.

Dogs logic---Don't bite the hand that feeds you!!!!:tongue

P.S. Mark Rich is about to get a little print--hope he drags your boy Slick into it. --By the way since you and Slick are faternal friends and he never took the time to share with this country his reasoning behind pardoning a felon on 10 most wanted list maybe you could speak in his behalf and share with us the justification behind it.I am all :bigear:

 

[Eddie Haskell]

Wayne:

Thanks for the logic lesson. My comment concerning Chiropractor Freeze referenced his cutting and pasting "patients" not cutting and pasting articles on this board.

I attack the insurance lobby because of manner in which they poison the public based upon lies, half-truths and exaggerating popular public anti-lawyer sentiment.

Lastly, I think we may agree that the real culprit in all of this are the ambulance chasers who advertise on the back of your local yellow pages and on late night TV.

By the way, I thought your GA comment was below the belt even for you. I can take it but, feel I should let you know that I thought that was a major cheap shot.

Ed

 

[ec2285]

Actually Eddie I live in Michigan now, was just passing through WV, but glad to see you did not lower yourself by resorting to ignorant comments.

Now I will concede that their are some bad doctors....some just because, but also in large part due to all the lawyers. I have personally been involved in trying to terminate the training of two resident physicians who I believed were incompetent, but by the time everyone was through "lawyering up" we were unable to get rid of either. The good thing is then you can go on to sue these guys later after they hurt someone.

Now I have also been fortunate (or unfortunate) to participate in some forensic work at "the hillbilly law school of West Virginia" and help train some of your colleagues in your profession. So I am, at least to some degree, aware of what is required to pursue a case. I also know that several lawyers initiate suits that they are well aware have no merit in order to bill their client and hope to settle with the insurance company or just make some fees. I would never say that all lawyers are this way but definately too many are. In my opinion this contributes (in part) to the rising cost of medicine as well as leading to the practice of "defensive medicine". If you do not believe that fear of legal action rules the practice of medicine today you are fooling yourself my friend.

With regards to "idiocy breeding idiocy" I agree, and you sir are an idiot. Your "witty banter" may overwhelm some of these young gentleman here but I am not impressed.

ec2285

 

[Eddie Haskell]

EC:

It appears that as you were "passing through" West Virginia, the attributes and characteristics of that wonderful state, took.

I liked your concession on "bad doctors". I further liked your immediate follow up that "bad doctors" are caused in large part by lawyers. Wonderful trait to admit something then take it away in the same breath. Are you a member of the current administration in DC?

Your lack of any knowledge with reference to malpractice cases is apparent throughout your post. Initially, I am unaware of any plaintiffs malpractice case wherein the attorney is able to "bill their client". Every plaintiffs malpractice case I am aware of is taken on a contingency fee basis. Error # 1.

No lawyer (unless of course they graduated from WVU law school) would ever, I repeat, ever, take on a plaintiffs malpractice case unless they had a expert health care practicioner critical of the care provided by the potential defendant. Such criticism has to survive the standard of care tests in each respective case. Error #2.

I am unaware of any plaintiffs lawyer that would take on a plaintiffs medical malpractice case in the hopes of settling with the carrier. Malpractice carriers are notorious for trying all of these lawsuits. They rarely if ever, settle. A big reason for doing so is the great expense it is to try these cases, often out of the attorneys pocket.

I tell potential malpractice clients that it will cost at a very minimum $20,000.00 to bring their case to trial. I don't know about your legal buddies, but I can't afford to shell out 20 grand in the hopes that the carrier will settle the case on a claim that I know has no merit. Error #3.

You claim fear of legal action "... rules the practice of medicine today..." is also misplaced. Fear of not being paid by health insurance carriers is more likely the determining factor as to which tests and procedures to utilize in any given situation. The practice of medicine is ruled by the insurance industry not fear of litigation. Error #4.

My gp said it best. I practice medicine to the best of my ability. If some one calls me on the carpet, thats my defense. Guess what Spartaneer, he hasn't been sued cause he is a good doc and keeps up with the current standard of care for gp's. Not hard, buddy, just good practice.

Last point with reference to your not being impressed with my "witty banter". If you think I care about your uneducated, shoot-from-the-hip, opinions of my posts... well then thats Error #5. Quite a few errors in one post clown. You sound like a typical right-wing, medical field minion. If you are, tell me how much your malpractice premiums decrease since tort reform and caps have been implemented.

After a few years of continued increases in premiums as well as insurance company crap that the premium increases would have been larger but for tort reform, maybe someone even as obviously slow as you are might realize that the propoganda about lawyers and lawsuits was just a little diversion to cover up for poor investment decisions by your policital buddies the insurance lobby.

Ed

 

[jpblack34]

Have to add a little bit of info since I used to live in Beaumont...
1) John O'Quinn's brother (Chris) was shot and killed by a client because they went to court I think for the same thing and obviously didn't go his way.
2) John O'Quinn is part of the firm that settled on the tobacco case a couple of years back. He is now probably worth billions.

Just FYI for those who are interested. JB

 

[dr. freeze]

The practice of medicine is ruled by the insurance industry AND the fear of litigation....there is absolutely NO denying the fact that litigation causes all kinds of problems

classic example:

GBS positive mom gives birth. GBS is a bacteria found on 30-40% of all moms. Well, it can potentially cause all kinds of problems. This happens in less than 1% of babies. Far less. Standard protocol is to now keep any baby an EXTRA DAY in the hospital because some "EXPERT" has been paid $$$ by lawyers to be put on the stand testifying the need to keep babies in hospitals an extra day for observation. The cost/benefit of this is so ludicrous that no one in their right mind except for Dr. $$$ "Expert" (aka just someone's bought opinion) says you need to keep them there. So the 1 baby out of 10 thousand who develops GBS meningitis and the parents are too stupid to recognize this (1 parent out of 1000) -- this leads to about 1 case out of 10 million -- is the baby which POTENTIALLY can be treated.

this is just one small example in a common, every day setting where litigation runs medicine and costs the citizenry BILLIONS of dollars/ year.....

 

[dr. freeze]

add to this the thousands upon thousands of unneccesary labs that are run DAILY which cost BILLIONS daily because of fear of litigation which might perhaps come from any patient.....thus making sure one can rule out everything from cancer to AIDS to TB to anemia for anyone who comes in with something as simple as diarrhea and you have to wonder just how much $$ litigation costs this country......

because if someone comes in with diarrhea or cough and is that one patient (in you and your colleague's 100 careers) who does have HIV or cancer and they present with their disease very unconventionally all it takes is a lawyer and a couple "experts" who sit around all day and read any one of 1,000 monthly medical journals to make you look like a fool

 

[Eddie Haskell]

Boys and Girls:

When many of you grow up and have children, I want to encourage you to have them study very hard, go to college, then hopefully, get into medical school and become doctors. You see the reason for this is not that they will make a lot of money as the golden age of medicine ended in the 80's when the health insurance companies cut back on doc's routinely making seven figures annually.

No, kids, the real reason to send your issue to medical school is that it is the only profession on the planet that I can think of where you are not responsible for your mistakes. You see, you can kill someone, turn them into parapalegics, quadrapalegics and vegtables and have your damages limited to what your "hands off" republican legislatures say is fair and reasonable.

Yes, kids, the Republicans who suposedly stand for less government have decided to involve government in the rights of juries (who can make decisions to kill someone but apparently cannot decide how much to award when Dr. Butcher chops off the wrong arm). Imagine driving down the road in your Hummer, slamming into some two year old in a crosswalk, leaving her splattered all over the crosswalk like a soon-to-be-emerging cidada on a windshield, with her mother witnessing the whole event and having your insurance company pay only $250,000.00

Not bad, your premiums will go up maybe a couple of hun a year. So remember to vote Republican and send your kids to medical school. Freeze, you are one immoral unethical street scumbag. If I were a republican pig like many of the clowns on this board I would make the following comment:

"I hope one day you feel the pain of the woman I mentioned in the example above and wonder why after the horrible death of your child your republican legislature says her life was only worth $250,000.00"

But since I'm a tree-hugging moderate, I won't say that.

Ed

 

[dr. freeze]

lmao thats all you can do when truth comes out....call names....sure there are bad doctors and it is a shame we can't get rid of them....if only the bad doctor's couldn't hire lawyers we would be able to do so easily

most of us ended such activity after the 2nd grade but i suppose thats all the trial lawyers can ever do

make up lies, twist the truth, screw people out of $$, etc. etc...

the only time you ever need a lawyer is when another one is causing you problems....

 

[dr. freeze]

and whatever happened to a "jury of my peers"?

since lawyers seem to not have any idea of what that means?

i suppose you could enlighten us Ed since your favorite document is the Constitution

 

[Eddie Haskell]

Dear Dr. Freeze:

Jury of peers? You mean a bunch of doctors sitting in judgment of another doctor? That would be fair. Kinda like now a days trying to find a doctor to testify against another doctor in your geographical area. Ain't done.

Every hear of the conspiracy of silence? You know exactly what I'm talking about. I know of many doctors in my area who will off the record tell me how one of your brethern screwed up but will not do so on the record. However, they will testify for the defendant doc if they feel he did not commit malpractice.

You confirm what I already know about your kind Freeze. The arrogance is astounding. Jury of peers? I guess human beings are not your peers, are they? You, like many republicans I know, actually think you are better than other people.

Lowlife.

Ed

 

[saint]

Eddie Haskell at a hard day of work

 

[dr. freeze]

yep thats exactly what i said....i am better than everyone else....

thats what the framers intended when they inserted a trial by jury of one's peers.....they intended to imply that certain people are better than everyone else

geez talking to you lawyers is like banging my head in the wall....can't have an intellectually honest conversation because everything one says is twisted and skewed after a brief character assassination....than more insults are hurled and implications are assumed and the subject at hand isn't even the subject at hand anymore

lmao...i will address your concerns when you raise your sorry ass out of the sewer....the constitution says what it says and there are reasons behind what it says.....reasons you are fully aware of but for some reason against because it would cost you and your fellow low life rat's lots of $$$$

 

[dr. freeze]

funny how a lawyer will propagate the idea that you should not trust a doctor to be on a jury.....

(the same guy who you trust with your life)

 

[Eddie Haskell]

The same guy you trust with your life just chopped off the wrong leg. Idiot. Constitution says jury of peers, quack. Not jury of peer doctors.

Eddie

P.S. Why in your feeble mind does jury of peers only apply to the defendant doctor? Most of the time, the Plaintiff is not a doctor. Besides that meathead, at least 85% of the malpractice verdicts are returned for your most greedy bretheren.

I just hope one day to get your negligent ass in the courtroom.

 

[Mr. Majestyk]

So let me get this straight...........

My insurance company pays off a $250,000 claim and my rates will only be raised a couple of hundred bucks a year? If anyone here ever wondered about your deductive abilities that statement alone should clearly put the issue forever to rest.

As to the rest of your lunatic ramblings..............

I think you are a very humorous guy............. in a sick and perverse way. You know how when you laugh at something that you shouldn't and feel bad about afterwards?

I really have far too little time to waste it spending much time reading this or any other board much less spending obvious hours, as in your case, posting. Hate to disappoint you but I doubt that anyone here really takes you seriously and in any regard I'm positive that no one gives a shit. So I wonder then just why in the hell do you spend so much time essentially writing to yourself? Actually I already know the answer so save your next thousand word bowell purge for one of your supposed clients who supposedly engage your "services" all the while never knowing what kind of person they are really dealing with. Good luck with your facade.

 

[Eddie Haskell]

Mr. M.:

I hope you take your own advice. Since you have far too little time to read and or post, please spend your time doing more productive things elsewhere. You must be a real important guy.

I can't tell if your a real humorous guy like me cause you havent said anything funny yet. Actually, you havent said anything at all.

If someone doesnt like what I say or believe, thats fine by me. Oh thats right I'm just typing this to myself, you aren't reading it.

I know your real busy and all but I'd really like to tell my clients what kind of person they are dealing with. If I were you, I wouldnt try to take me on Mr. Majestic. You have no idea as to who you are dealing with.

A couple of posts with you and you will be scampering out of the kitchen like a dog with his tail between his legs peeing all over the linoleum. Now go away.

Ed

 

[Stuman]

:topic: Sort of...

But can somebody please tell me why it is getting more and more diffucult for emergency stroke patients in California to find a doctor that is willing to admit them? I hear people are being turned away.

sincerely,
the uneducated

 

[Mr. Majestyk]

Outstanding little Eddie!! Like Pavlov's mutt you fell for my bait and proved my point by taking exactly 20 minutes to respond to my post. You really are a lifeless slug with absolutely nothing to occupy your time.

I'm not an attorney but if you are I would chew you to pieces in a courtroom. Would love to have a half wit like you try to question me.

By the way I really am a busy professional with little time, a family, friends, obligations, volunteer work and the like. You know what I'm talking about, the complete opposite of you. My infrequent and short posts prove my statements and your incessant and novel length posts prove just who you are (and are not).

Well I've enjoyed the diversion but duty calls. Will let you go back to doing what you do best. Talking aloud in an empty room. Maybe I'll drop back by in a week or so to peek in the window of your cyberworld rubber room.

(Oh and I do apologize for taking advantage of the disadvantaged (that would be you Edwardo). Like taking candy from a baby as they say. Didn't mean any real harm but you were such an obvious ploy. 20 minutes to respond!!!!! Unbelievable!!!!)