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Originally Posted by creekster
ON my most recent plane flight I sat next to an ER dcotor for the Kaiser system. As I am a lawyer, we almost inevitbaly ended up discussing malpractice suits and their implications. Ay one point he asked me if I knew the biggest cause of malpractice suits. I rolled my eyes and said something like "greedy lawyers?" He said "Nope. Malpractice."
He was a very nice guy, actually, and his biggest gripe was not the outcome of these types of suits, but the unpredictability of the result.
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I suspect he said that because he was talking to a lawyer and didn't want an awkward plane ride.
In reality, it's a combination of factors. Do you really think doctors in Louisiana are far worse than the doctors in Texas?