Comments on: Proposition 46 in California Designed by Inebriated Trial Lawyers, Sparks Proposition 47 and 48

By: Rick Strand

Rick Strand — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 18:49:00 +0000

Prop 46 will make the Dr. slow down and spend more time on the patient. it will hold the Dr accountable when they’re careless. It will require doctors to be drug/alcohol tested, ensuring our safety. The days of the 5 minute appointment, tossing out a plethora of prescriptions without proper diagnosis is coming to an end!! The days of marginalizing our loved ones is coming to an END. Finally, this white coat, God like complex and arrogance is coming to an END! I look forward to this becoming a law! * I am a parent who lost his healthy 24 year old daughter, a new mother of just 4 months to a local doctor who carelessly gave her 2 medications that immediately killed her and the opposition wants me to be accepting? Not so much! This health and safety initiative reaches into each of our homes, providing that very necessary added layer of security for our families. For those thinking this is about the attorney’s…..Keep in mind that this is the only door open to you when you seek justice and want to hold a Dr. accountable. The only door!! ~ unless it falls under MICRA. Just as soon as Dr’s learns of our loved one’s death, they call legal and circle the wagons while we’re still in shock, bawling uncontrollably. We can expect more and we are going to get it….Yes on 46!

By: Wenjay Sung

Wenjay Sung — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 13:28:53 +0000

In reply to Mathew Cheung. Yes!

By: Wenjay Sung

Wenjay Sung — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 13:28:13 +0000

In reply to Gomerblog. Sad tragedy. I hope he went after the bar that was serving alcohol that night and filing a lawsuit against all bars.

By: Mathew Cheung

Mathew Cheung — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 20:50:03 +0000

Proposition 47. Global fees for malpractice lawyers not hourly fees.

By: Gomerblog

Gomerblog — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 19:40:56 +0000

In reply to Robin Fahringer Mitchell Machajewski. Yes!!

By: Robin Fahringer Mitchell Machajewski

Robin Fahringer Mitchell Machajewski — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 18:23:19 +0000

Yes. As long as health care is treated like Burger King (“have it your way”) there will be prescription drug abuse. Period. Blaming the docs is like blaming the bartender for alcoholism, as docs now have about as much “say” as a bartender as a result of Press Gainey type BS. One other thing that will continue as long as the BK mentality continues? Over prescribing of antibiotics. I see folks “doctor shopping” for an abx rx for a viral illness even more than for narcs. And the “education” argument is nice and all, but THAT won’t stop it either. Unless you are living under a rock, EVERY ONE knows smoking is “bad for you” and MANY still smoke. Until docs are allowed to treat based on their professional judgment (and NOT just to keep the masses happy) there WILL be rampant abuse of the system – and it is unfair to force medical professionals to bear the consequences of patients’ decisions. (Don’t even get me STARTED on the Medicare not-gonna-reimburse-CHF-readmissions issue!)

By: Eric Williams

Eric Williams — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 18:08:01 +0000

The first part of this story CONTAINS NO SATIRE, AND IS FACTUAL: A ferocious yearlong battle over Proposition 46 will be decided in California at the polls this upcoming November. Proposition 46 includes proposals to drug test physicians, to raise caps on medical malpractice payments from $250,000 to $1,000,000, and to mandate checking narcotic prescriptions in an outdated and extremely inefficient state operated computer system. Trial lawyers were able to get momentum for this proposition by touting it as a patient safety bill while stealthily lumping in their true mission, making more money off of medical malpractice cases.

By: Gomerblog

Gomerblog — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 17:21:29 +0000

While we sympathize with Mr. Pack’s tragedy several years ago, this is NOT the way to fix the underlying opioid prescription issues. To think that doctors will only do the right thing if malpractice is raised is completely ignorant and belittling to the profession. Drug testing physicians is a completely separate topic. Besides we now have Press Ganey telling us to please all patients, so what are we to do?

By: guest

guest — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 16:15:00 +0000

Hahahaha, almost scary that I could see this actually happening.

By: Marsha Parker

Marsha Parker — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 15:24:43 +0000

Sadly the last part of this is true. Charting to cover your ass…especially with the new computer charting systems that replaces a checkmark on a paper chart with ten minutes of logging in, passwords, finding the right category and having to answer 20 irrelevant questions to get to the place you want…takes more time than patient care.