Tuesday, December 28, 2004  You Suck!  When physicians get sued
after all they’ve sacrificed it’s just a horrible slap in the
face. It degrades us, makes us feel worthless and makes
everything we’ve worked to achieve seem unappreciated. If you
could do a better job, you should do it yourself! People die,
sometimes early, sometimes, no matter what we do. Accept it.
But here is something I recently discovered after speaking to my
patients this month. Patients believe this shit. They really
believe it. The lawyers have won and you know who’s to blame, we
are.  Us “doctors” who have been so nice as to not speak up,
instead, we’ve had our heads in our asses, quite frankly. My
father puts it best “they were spitting in your face and you
denied and said it was raining”.  It began with HMO’s screwing
us because they want to get their bottom line up and our
payments down. Now we can’t see a patient for longer than 10
minutes and we get paid less than we ever did. Furthermore,
we’re the ones they sue when something go