Posted on 01/04/2003 9:50:17 AM PST by Hacksaw
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:10:55 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) . A walkout by surgeons protesting high malpractice insurance costs will continue indefinitely because Gov. Bob Wise and the Legislature have not done enough to address the problem, a participating surgeon said Friday.
More than two dozen orthopedic, general and heart surgeons serving four hospitals in West Virginia's Northern Panhandle began 30-day leaves of absence Wednesday or planned to begin leaves in the next few days.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Get your greedy butts back to work or face hard time in Moundsville.
I'm glad to see some physicians getting serious about this issue. You can only poke a sleeping dog so many times . . .
I thought we closed that place down :)
Bob Wise was heavily supported by the trial lawyers - National Review did a good piece on the whole situtation months ago. It looks like the chickens are finally coming home to roost - or as the Libertarians would (quite aptly here) say "Atlas is shrugging".
that was my first question too! LOL!
What he would think is "Maybe I should move there".
Amen.
fate is a beautiful thing - budda bean - budda bing!
Congress is full of lawyers. Just who are you going to get to craft and pass that legislation?
That is done PRECICISELY because of lawsuits.
The doctors and hospital administrators said meetings with Wise administration officials were absolutely worthless. Area legislators are irritated with Wise for failing to take any action, other than sending Susman to Wheeling. From the Wheeling newspaper:
While state officials have been meeting with the physicians and administrators of the four hospitals in recent days in hopes of averting the situation, Gov. Bob Wise is expected to detail his solution during his State of the State message, which is set for next Wednesday.
State Sen. Andy McKenzie, R-Ohio, [That means Ohio County, in which Wheeling is located] said Thursday Wise could take action to end the walkout now.
"The governor needs to do the right thing," McKenzie said. A solution presented in the State of the State message would be a "week too late," he believes.
"They might be wonderful ideas next week but they would be fantastic this week," he said. "Any words of wisdom he might have, I hope he shares them now." McKenzie said that by executive order, Wise can place the surgeons in a state-run program with lower malpractice premiums that was made available to some Charleston physicians in September. full story
Yesterday, a group of "consumer lawyers," that is, personal injury vultures, held a press conference to announce a fund for "abandoned patients," to pay for transportation to other hospitals. What hypocrisy. The leader, Bob Fitzsimmons, is responsible for filing more groundless medical malpractice suits in Ohio County Circuit Court than anyone.
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