First let me say, I will not be voting for Kerry/Edwards.
With that being said, I think it is more accurate to say,
Thanks fellow citizens on the juries who believe the nonsense that trial lawyers such a John Edwards spew and find the doctors liable for damages.
Remember, it is not the trial lawyer that makes the decision.
The trial lawyer only presents one side of the case.
It has been the idiots on the juries that are responsible for the increase in liability insurance premiums.
Medical malpractice cases should be channeled through a special court system, with juries comprised exclusively of physicians in the relevant area of specialization. That would quickly end the problem of the clueless, emotion-driven juries, and the careers of dramatic lying liability lawyers like Edwards. Physicians should all go on strike until this system is the law of the land.
The jury system was never intended to put simple-minded ignorant people in charge of second guessing the judgement of highly trained professional. People accused of wrongdoing are supposed to be tried by a jury of their PEERS. Some high school dropout who doesn't know the difference between a vein and an artery is most certainly not the peer of an obstetrician or neurosurgeon.
yeah, but it would be easier to shoot the lawyers than virtually everyone besides the lawyers ;)