Comment on Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA?
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoThis combined with liability. If the patient gets anything even resembling an unsatisfactory result, they’re likely to sue the doctor.
Comment on Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA?
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoThis combined with liability. If the patient gets anything even resembling an unsatisfactory result, they’re likely to sue the doctor.
Buttflapper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Honestly, I think this is not true, in my experience at least. I think suing doctors was a feature of the '90s and early 2000s, but now people are so poor they can’t afford lawyers to sue a doctor for them, and medical malpractice runs so rampant that doctors don’t even seem to care at all. Everyone has had a bad running with a doctor, yet you’re very unlikely to hear of someone who has sued a doctor and gotten away with it.