Sounds familiar. Last year, my father was preparing his bass boat to put on a lake. He slipped and fell off, twisted his leg (wrenched it) when it got caught between the boat's trailer and the boat on his way down, then he hit his head really bad on the pavement.

He was bleeding quite a bit from the head. He drove up in one of our driveways bleeding and limping, and I took him to the Emergency Room down at Baptist.

At Baptist, of course the stitched up his head wound. This is where it gets bad though. After MULTIPLE XRAYS, they diagnosed him with having a severe sprain and gave him a splint. Doctor giving the diagnosis... of course a D.O. from OSU.. Patrick, I'd love to hear your opinion on these future colleagues of yours

The next day, he went to his general practitioner who took off the splint and looked at the leg. Just from looking at the leg (no xray needed) he remarked that it sure as heck wasn't a sprain. It was a severe break!

Of course, we've handled some eye-popping medical malpractice cases. Sometimes the doctors kill people through gross negligence. For example, one of our former clients spouses went to their general practioner with a sudden fever , severe headache, tiredness, deep muscle pain, chills, nausea, a rash, and a tick bite...

Easy diagnosis? Yeah?

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever...

Doctor diagnosed it was the flu, sent patient home, told to take asprin, drink plenty of fluids. 3 days later, patient dies.

The doctor still practices medicine today and short of the lawsuit we won against him which was covered by his insurance (and wasn't really that much money), he suffered no professional repercussions.

I feel like the medical licensing board needs to be given more power to pull licenses of the few doctors that cause the majority of these lawsuits through their incompetance, negligence and arrogance. The medical/insurance communities would rather point their fingers elsewhere when the real problem lies within their ranks.

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