Emergency Room Doctor Making Up Outrageous Medical Malpractice Claims
I found a new blog called ER Stories - Shocking, Hilarious, Bizarre, and Sad Tales from the ER. It is an anonymously written blog by an emergency room doctor.
I have a bit of a problem assessing the credibility of someone who refuses to identify themselves. Does the American Medical Association take a position on this? I also notice the site has a lot of prominently placed Google ads. To borrow the old Seinfeld line, “Not that there is anything wrong with it.” But it is worth noting.
Anyway, one of his leitmotifs is frivolous medical malpractice cases, as evidenced by his post called “What a Wonderful Legal System We Have.” He tells an incredible story of a patient who came in with a fractured ankle but ran out of the hospital to flee police. After getting arrested a few days later, he gets treatment and then brought a medical malpractice claim against the hospital, which the hospital settled for $10,000.
Doc… I’m not quite sure how to… say this. Wait, I got it. You are a liar. This story you are telling? This never happened, at least not with these material facts. I guarantee it. This is right up there with the guy who put his Winnebago on cruise control and went back and made himself a sandwich and then sued for millions.
Doc, instead of making $1 a click on Google Ad words I have a way for you to make more money faster. Prove this happened and I’ll send you a check for $1,000.
Comments
I would bet anything this guy is not really a doctor. What doctor would do this? I read the rest of his blog. Your post was just a morsel of the nonsense this guys is putting out there and not just about legal issues.
Posted by: Dennis Rawley | February 19, 2008 2:45 PM
I agree with previous comment. This guy is not a doctor. It's just a bad joke.
Posted by: Ambulance Doctor | June 17, 2008 12:11 PM
Peacemaker is right. If it were normal to faint, everyone would be doing it and people wouldn't call 911 to have me come out and help them. It is the cause of the syncope that can be the medical emergency, not the syncope itself. It could be just a symptom of something bigger, like reduced cardiac output, etc. If a person is having the very beginning stages of a myocardial infarction (heart attack), they may have a syncopal episode due to the clot in their heart. You can't tell me that this isn't medical emergency.
Posted by: Pinnacle Security | May 8, 2009 6:22 AM