Marine let down by government..

[thepd7]

Originally posted by: irishScott

Originally posted by: thepd7

Originally posted by: JS80
People love to blame an entity (government, corporation, HMO, insurance) and never the individual responsible for it (in this case some retarded doctors).

True, yet everyone makes mistakes at their jobs. EVERY doctor has made a mistake that led to a person's death. Yes it's sad, but people are just that...people. They are humans and they make mistakes. Hell, if mistakes at my job caused deaths I would be a mass-murderer.

This doctor misdiagnosed a large thick puss-producing lesion as a "wart". He was also diagnosed in 97 with melanoma an never told or treated. WTF. I'm sorry, these doctors are morons and should have their licenses revoked, if not jailed for negligent homicide.

oh so you've never not known something you should have at your job?

fyi, my Dad died of cancer because of malpractice. We sued and won, but I don't hold a grudge against the doctor because he made a stupid mistake.

 

[Josh]

Originally posted by: thepd7

Originally posted by: irishScott

Originally posted by: thepd7

Originally posted by: JS80
People love to blame an entity (government, corporation, HMO, insurance) and never the individual responsible for it (in this case some retarded doctors).

True, yet everyone makes mistakes at their jobs. EVERY doctor has made a mistake that led to a person's death. Yes it's sad, but people are just that...people. They are humans and they make mistakes. Hell, if mistakes at my job caused deaths I would be a mass-murderer.

This doctor misdiagnosed a large thick puss-producing lesion as a "wart". He was also diagnosed in 97 with melanoma an never told or treated. WTF. I'm sorry, these doctors are morons and should have their licenses revoked, if not jailed for negligent homicide.

oh so you've never not known something you should have at your job?

fyi, my Dad died of cancer because of malpractice. We sued and won, but I don't hold a grudge against the doctor because he made a stupid mistake.

Ha...there's a difference between being a secretary and filing something incorrectly and being a doctor and fucking something up so someone might die...about a $170,000 per year difference. Their job is to NOT fuck something up, that's why they study so damn much and are paid the big bucks.

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: brownzilla786
The law should change, but it wont.

No, actually it shouldn't change. Not sure why JS80 would blame Bush since it was the Supreme Court in 1950 who ruled on the Feres Doctrine.

Over the course of armed conflicts there have been many more deaths from illness and disease then from fighting. We're getting amazingly better at lowering those numbers but obviously some cases like this still slip through the cracks. While of course there was a misdiagnosis or several along the way I think that Sgt. Rodriguez and his chain of command should have pushed harder to get rid of the pussy thing.

Of course it is a tragic loss of a soldier's life.

My point was that little miss katie curic is trying to smear the bush run military. I can guarantee you if it were during the Clinton era this story would have been buried. It's a non-story.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: JS80

My point was that little miss katie curic is trying to smear the bush run military. I can guarantee you if it were during the Clinton era this story would have been buried. It's a non-story.

Ok, thanks for clearing that up. I was wondering where the hell you pulled that from. The military is so much better run during Bush then Clinton. Guys who I talked to that were in for both said the changes were dramatic.

 

[Chiropteran]

Originally posted by: Safeway

Originally posted by: TallBill
To try to change the law so that active duty military can sue. It wont happen though.

There would be far too many wrongful death suits. "I didn't want him in Iraq to begin with. He has a family here." or "We shouldn't be in war! Why was my son killed." or "That roadside bomb should have been found!" or "That sniper should have been killed." or "That field medic should have been able to save his life."

Whats wrong with that?

You think the government shouldn't be held responsible for the deaths it causes?

 

[thepd7]

Originally posted by: Josh

Originally posted by: thepd7

Originally posted by: irishScott

Originally posted by: thepd7

Originally posted by: JS80
People love to blame an entity (government, corporation, HMO, insurance) and never the individual responsible for it (in this case some retarded doctors).

True, yet everyone makes mistakes at their jobs. EVERY doctor has made a mistake that led to a person's death. Yes it's sad, but people are just that...people. They are humans and they make mistakes. Hell, if mistakes at my job caused deaths I would be a mass-murderer.

This doctor misdiagnosed a large thick puss-producing lesion as a "wart". He was also diagnosed in 97 with melanoma an never told or treated. WTF. I'm sorry, these doctors are morons and should have their licenses revoked, if not jailed for negligent homicide.

oh so you've never not known something you should have at your job?

fyi, my Dad died of cancer because of malpractice. We sued and won, but I don't hold a grudge against the doctor because he made a stupid mistake.

Ha...there's a difference between being a secretary and filing something incorrectly and being a doctor and fucking something up so someone might die...about a $170,000 per year difference. Their job is to NOT fuck something up, that's why they study so damn much and are paid the big bucks.

True. And yet last time I checked they aren't robots. In the hundreds of things they do a month it only takes 1 mistake. You can pay me $1 billion a year and I will still make a mistake every once in a while, I'm human. So are they.