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Doctors have licenses, which are hard to obtain and can and are revoked for life for serious missteps. They need to have expensive insurance because patients su
by saiya-jin 3y ago
Doctors have licenses, which are hard to obtain and can and are revoked for life for serious missteps. They need to have expensive insurance because patients sue them if they mess up, sometimes even if they don't. Doctors can end up in jail.
Even outside of US I can imagine it would be very easy to sue for emotional distress caused. Imagine somebody may quit their job on spot, do some financial decisions which they wouldn't do otherwise, or even commit suicide if already on the edge.
- stef25 3y agoWithout wanting to downplay the effects of being told you have cancer, one has to wonder if the doctor or lab should be responsible for whatever an unstable person does upon receiving this news. The examples you mention would be just as bad even if the news was true. Not sure if there's any valid logic there on my part. > Even outside of US I can imagine it would be very easy to sue for emotional distress caused Living in the EU, I'm guessing it would have to be REALLY bad for you to be able to take someone to court over this. It would have to be "fake news" that persisted for a pretty long time, not just a phone call or email. Put an innocent person in jail for X years, compensate them for it. Tell a person they're going to jail and tell them the next day that they aren't, that's a different story.
- ndsipa_pomu 3y ago> one has to wonder if the doctor or lab should be responsible for whatever an unstable person does upon receiving this news. If the doctor/lab has been negligent with their work, then yes they should be held partly responsible. Obviously mistakes happen, but you expect that a serious diagnosis would be taken seriously and double checked.