Persuasive Essay On Medical Malpractice

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Despite records breaking of medical malpractices and serious misconduct that put patients at risk, many doctors are still able to practice medicine. Whether narrowly avoided or followed as a consequence of patient injury, medical errors have increasingly taken a center stage in health care debates. Health care professionals, patients, policy makers and politicians have engaged in a close fight with the extreme consequences and facts of medical errors. Because of cases ranging from failure to disclose medical errors, wrong site surgery, negligence and incompetence, doctors should lose their medical license. One of the biggest issues the health industry has is the fact that most doctors will not admit making an error, and if they do, they usually …show more content…

In fact, an article publishes on CBS News (9.12.14) explore the records of 25 doctors with the most malpractice payouts in Florida. These doctors even with a numerous number of malpractice cases have continued to provide medical care to patients. To support their story and denounce practice by doctors, lawyer and even the Medical Boards of Medicine, CBS News did an article about doctors and their malpractices cases, they focus more on the story of a doctor who lost his wife due to medical negligence. According to CBS the surgeon, Dr. Ernest Rehnke of St. Petersburg, denied wrongdoing. But he settled the case for $250,000 - the maximum his insurance policy would pay for a single claim. In any giving time, a case such as this case you be punishable differently specially if a doctor is found to have committed many infractions in the past. Dr. Sidney Wolfe told CBS News that “When you look at these doctors with the largest number of malpractice suits, you have to ask the question -- at what point could we have prevented the last five, or the last ten?”

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