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Staying within the "standard of care" basically immunizes MDs from malpractice liability. They are the only profession that has such a carve out. Other professi
by pnw_hazor 7y ago
Staying within the "standard of care" basically immunizes MDs from malpractice liability. They are the only profession that has such a carve out. Other professions and industries have to live by a reasonableness standard and cannot hide behind "everyone else does it this way" as a defense.
Thus, MDs are disincentivized from being creative or innovative outside of pure research settings.
- jcranmer 7y ago> Other professions and industries have to live by a reasonableness standard and cannot hide behind "everyone else does it this way" as a defense. Except "everyone else does it this way" is quite literally an acceptable definition of "reasonable"...
- mrfusion 7y agoWhy can’t patients sign a waiver saying they won’t sue?
- asdff 7y agoMDs participate in clinical trials all the time. They are free to participate in advancing therapies that they believe in if they have a sufficient patient cohort and resources to test their hypothesis.