[Polybius]

The medical industry at LARGE refuses to address the massive incompetency that is ongoing in their profession. They refuse to take away licenses from doctors that are incompetent.

The "medical industry" does not issue medical licenses.

States do.

The "medical industry" does not revoke medical licenses.

States do.

If you have evidence of the "massive incompetency" that you claim exists, then make a list of all the doctors you know are incompetent, document the facts of the cases of such incompetence, write a complaint against the medical licenses of those doctors and then mail the documentation to your State's Board of Professional Licensing.

By the way, just out of curiosity, how many Morbidity and Mortality Reviews, Medical Staff Quality Assurance meetings and Hospital Credentials Meetings do you regularly attend?

At least in our Hospital and in our County, I see no evidence of the alleged "massive incompetency" that you claim exists at the M&M, MSQA and Credentials meetings that I attend.

[nmh]

Ask ANYONE that has a serious medical problem about the competenct of the medical industry AT LARGE. You will more incompetenc than your naive, but large ego can handle.

It IS the medical community that needs to get rid of those who are the worst offenders. Obvioulsy you are not familiar with the Medical Review Board who has the authority to REVOKE a license. If you want to rely on the "state" you might as well not bother.

[nmh]

Too bad your so defensive. For all I know you're a prime offender who like others in the medical profession can not tolerate ANY cirticism.

I don't have to attend your silly medical seminars that don't address this issue. All I have to do is go INTO a hospital and SEE the care or rather incompetenet NEGLECT that routinely takes place. You on the otherhand bury yourself in trite back slapping idiots.

[Mamzelle]

re: By the way, just out of curiosity, how many Morbidity and Mortality Reviews, Medical Staff Quality Assurance meetings and Hospital Credentials Meetings do you regularly attend?)))

Typical cheap shot from a know-nothing--even if nmh had the opportunity to serve in such a capacity, the responsibility would terrify and he'd run from the liability that those on QA shoulder.

It's like that other urban legend, the ER that won't see patients without them paying first. They just shove the MIs out the front door to die on the doorstep.

Those like nmh nurse their resentments as the hospitals and doctor's practices dwindle and die. When this thread started, I looked skeptically at that long list of docs in Penn. Docs do relocate for other reasons than malpractice crises--but there are two very important bolsterings of this story: 1) the circumstances of the hospitals 2) the decrease in real numbers, from one decade to the next, of physicians in Penn.

Of course, that's also a conspiracy of the medical industry to limit the number of new physicians by limiting med students...