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How Do We Keep Good Medical Care In Pennsylvania?
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Discussion Started: 05-08-2001, 5:23 PM
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Rising medical malpractice insurance rates are causing problems across the state. The state is also experiencing a nursing shortage. How can we keep good healthcare in Pennsylvania?
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Nukegirl
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03-20-2006, 6:23 PM
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Vickiann, I second that opinion of insurance companies making a medical judgement call on potentially life threatning diseases. HMO's are the biggest culprit of this. Their customer service support is not knowledgable about who is "IN NETWORK or "OUT OF NETWORK" and then they blame the member for not completing each and every step to escape paying for your medical care. Nevermind that you are paying boatloads in insurance premiums and when you need them they are not there or their standard of care is so low you might as well become the doctor yourself. Its a sad state of affairs especially in the area of the contraversial debate over Lyme Disease. I had to add my two cents to this issue.
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taszy
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01-09-2003, 2:41 PM
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Insurance companys have to stop gouging the doctors. Doctors need to accept responsibility when they make mistakes and stop with the good old boy protection of bad doctors. People need to stop blaming the victims for filing a law suit. They live every day with the outcome of a doctor's mistake. I should know, I am living without my esophagus due to doctor error.
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tonphi
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01-03-2003, 5:39 PM
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Two words...limited tort. Here's a thought - limit the "take" that the lawyers get on malpractice suits. I guarantee the number of suits and size of settlements will drop.
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Lorri200
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01-03-2003, 2:23 PM
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Doctors who make mistakes need to be held accountable. I think the doctors who have made errors need to be catalogued in a database that anyone can access. I have a daughter who lost her vision as a result of a doctor's carelessness and ego. I was devastated to learn the very same doctor has been sued several times in recent years. I wish I had been given the chance to research his history. It would have meant the world of difference to my family. The civil law process is as flawed as the criminal law system. Nothing is perfect, but at least it allows the victim to seek compensation for thier loss. Doctors are human and THEY MAKE MISTAKES. Just because they are professionals, they are not above anyone else! Believe me there are a a lot of really excellent, caring doctors. We have had excellent care with the exception of this one who damaged my child for the rest of her life. So let me ask you, if it were your child, how much money should she receive? A cap on lawsuits, not if I have anything to say about it!
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Kitty122
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01-02-2003, 11:33 AM
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They need to re-evaluate what you can sue for and cap the proceeds. A mistake is a mistake.
As far as the nurses, they are dying breed. Nurses are not treated very well by anyone and the doctors need to be the first to start treating them better. Better pay, they work really long hours.
Peace, Kitty
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tippy4
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11-26-2002, 1:13 PM
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I think they should put a cap of $250,000 dollars onlaw suits. I think they should try to do something about the insurance price they charge doctors.After December 31 2002 they are going to cancel the insurance for the Nurosurgens at the TRAMA CENTER LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL.SOMEBODY BETTER DO SOMETHING OR WERE NOT GONING TO HAVE ANY DOCTORS LEFT IN PENNSYLVANIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks LeRoy E.Sterling
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JCPenningt
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05-31-2002, 1:33 PM
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Restrict the amount of money juries can award in mal practice law suits.
Best Regards JCP
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hkreider
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01-29-2002, 7:31 PM
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I am a nurse. I graduated two years ago from nursing school. I would venture to say that nurses around the country are having similar frusrations as the nurses here in PA are having. The nursing shortage in occuring across the entire country. This is only the beginning of the shortage. As the baby boomer generation begins to enter retirement, the shortage will continue to grow. Therefore, we do need to identify ways to encourage nursing as a profession and we need to thank those who are in nursing today. It is not a fun job when taking care of very sick people with minimal staffing. I remember nights where I ran around for 10 hours, with only a small break. Too many nights like that, and burn out can happen fast. Too many times patients seemed as though they thought they were in hotels, and that they should be catered on hand and foot. I remember one patient who said hospitals are nothing like they used to be. He remembered receiving a back rub every night before bed and haveing his water drawn in the morning for his bath. His comment was "it's too bad." The public needs to understand that we are doing the best we can. You must support our efforts, or it will only push more nurses away, causing a bigger problem. Simply saying "thank you" to a nurse is a start. As for the doctors, we need to remember that doctors are like anyone else and yes, they do make mistakes. That makes them human. We need to learn to forgive...and not sue anytime we think there may have been a mistake.
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vickieann
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12-19-2001, 9:27 PM
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good medical care could come very easily if the doctor's decisions weren't second-guessed by non-medical people sitting in offices with their book of codes, deciding whether or not you can have the medical treatment your DOCTOR, WHO WENT TO MEDICAL SCHOOL, feels you need. insurance companies are a nightmare that should be put an end to. let those who are ill get the treatment that will make them better, not half-treatment because the insurance companies say that isn't covered!!! doctors are there to help those needing help, insurance companies are there strictly for the money. save money but lose a life!! what's wrong with this picture??
Thoughtly,val
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Carol Heil
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05-14-2001, 6:20 AM
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I have several friends who are nurses and I feel listening to their complaints that one of the problems occurred when they instituted the bachelor's degree requirement and closed the hospital nursing schools. Nurses got "hands on" training and not just "book" knowledge. Also nursing has changed that much my friend went into an R.N. degree because she wanted to take care of people . . .hands on care but became a "paper pusher" which (paper work) was never her forte she is very much a "people person". Also something has to be done to reach people graduating from high school to encourage them to enter the nursing field. Good pay, benefits and working conditions could be an incentive and maybe the training program needs to be enhanced. I think the nursing schools at hospitals years ago was better and more attractive to the student. Clearly the problems I hear my nursing friends complain about comes from overwork due to lack of staff. I think we also have to face reality and realize that more and more nursing staff will be needed in the future as more people live into "old age" and a bigger portion of our society will be older people. Who will take care of them? If not more nursing facilities and more nursing staff, people (probably especially women) will have to quit their jobs and take the elderly into their homes and also provide nursing care to them in their homes. We need to plan for this problem now, not wait until the future when the problem is upon us.
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