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And it turns out this entire time Trump was actually Daniel Day Lewis pulling off the longest method acting stint in history.

Money-hungry lawyers? What? You expect an attorney to shell out $100k of his/her own money to bring suit, hire experts, and hundreds of hours for the prospect of coming out with negative revenue?

Really, the state should require doctors to carry malpractice insurance just like you are required to carry motor vehicle insurance. Your vehicle insurance isn't to protect you, it's to protect anyone you harm.

They could argue that this will drive some doctors out of the business, but those doctors who can't afford or can't qualify for malpractice insurance are the worst performing and may need to be weeded out anyway.

From the article:

Those physicians have been disciplined 44% more frequently over the past decade, and they are more likely to have committed criminal offenses – mostly for driving under the influence, according to USA TODAY’s analysis. In all, 110 of those physicians without insurance are licensed to practice in Florida after facing disciplinary action in other states.

EDIT: Another legislative tool might be to pass a law requiring doctors practicing without medical malpractice insurance to CLEARLY and OBVIOUSLY disclose this fact to any patient being treated.

Good to know. Do the patients need to sign a notice of consent or is it just a "black box" notification on their intake paperwork?

Second choice is Lady Eboshi from Mononoke Hime. And I have had dinner with her.

What a flex!

I’m a doctor. No wonder you take the views you do.

Doctors with bad outcomes are not necessarily bad doctors. The things we allow lawyers to sue for in this country are ridiculous, and the legal profession has turned doctors into note monkeys instead of caretakers.

I see you decided not to explain how I was wrong and to instead assert some half-baked opinions.

Sorry, but just because you're a doctor doesn't make you a saint. Way too many doctors take your view, when--in fact--doctors are the most overprotected profession in the United States.

You're the hardest to sue, you've successfully lobbied half the states into "tort reform" that makes it nearly impossible to get restitution for even blatant malpractice, and you whine despite bringing in at minimum $145k a year.

As a physician, you should know that every doctor has an abiding commitment to NOT FUCK THEIR PATIENTS' LIVES UP. You shouldn't be protected and coddled when you are negligent. Like everyone else, you should at the very least carry reasonable malpractice insurance to protect your patients from ruin.

How could that not be reasonable unless you are completely and utterly selfish?

By the way, not that it matters a whole lot, but I'm an MD/JD, so I see both sides of the coin and have seen both arguments. If you are in fact a physician, I think you need to see the bigger picture here and realize that the world is a little more complicated than the surface-level analysis you've clearly given this subject.