Web site tells doctors of patients' lawsuits

[SoCalDem]

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2435794

March 6, 2004, 3:01AM

Web site tells doctors of patients' lawsuits
By JANET ELLIOTT
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau

AUSTIN -- After doctors botched their loved one's surgeries and missed diagnoses, Texans Dolores Romero and Greg Dawson sought justice in court. Now they are listed on a Web site being marketed to doctors who want to check if prospective patients have filed lawsuits.

"It's so unfair, and it's so ridiculous," said Romero, who lives in Humble with her husband, Ricardo, who suffered severe brain damage during back surgery. "Ours was not a frivolous lawsuit. Bad doctors need to be held accountable for their actions." Critics of the Web site say it's an unethical "blacklist" of people, some of whom have been grievously injured by negligent physicians.

"They can sue but they can't hide," states the DoctorsKnow.Us Web site. For $4.95 a month, members can perform up to 250 name searches.
Terrell radiologist John Shannon Jones formed DoctorsKnow.Us as a Texas limited liability company in January 2003. The Web site, which began operating last November, combs public records for people who have filed medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability or general civil lawsuits. The site states it does not judge "the fitness" of the claims.


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This is disgusting.. When will the patients have a website that lists all the screw-ups of their "potential" doctors.. If a doctor gets sued, he loses some money..but if a patient "chooses the wrong doctor", they can end up D E A D !!!

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Sounds like an opportunity for several civil rights lawsuits

Violation of privacy; abuse of physician-patient privilege; defamation; unauthorized use of personal information; retaliation for lawful use of the courts; breech of professional conduct; probably a few hundred more.

So DoctorsKnow is a limited liability company, is it? And you thought the neo-cons were dedicated to Personal Responsibility™!

--bkl
Try This:
A website listing physicians who are foreign-born
but who receive, or have received, taxpayer funds.

[SoCalDem]

2. kick because this is so egregious

:(

[Dogmudgeon]

3. Kick - two - three - four

--bkl

[WarNoMore]

4. Kick! eom

[Forkboy]

5. and another kick for mom!

[Enraged_Ape]

6. kick

:kick: