Do You Use Medical Justice?
asked 1 year ago by anon
Latest answer by Richard H. Tholen, MD, FACS
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Tags: patient rights
Curious how many of you use Medical Justice or other programs that create contracts limiting or prohibiting patient's ability to review your practice online?
Whether yes or no, what is your stance on the ethical debate over these contracts?
2 answers to Do You Use Medical Justice?
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Medical Justice and other such programs? What are they all about!
No, I dont have a program like that which is designed to limit patients and I think its not necessary. Even more I doubt its effectiveness. Every professional; surgeons, dentists, attorneys, and many many other in all walks of life have been attack by some unstable person. If aggrivations come up there is always litigation and even better just talking and reasoning with the professional about the complaint. The unstable person bent on damaging someone...
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George Commons, MD
Palo Alto Plastic Surgeon
Palo Alto Plastic Surgeon
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This sounds like a question from the founder of Medical Justice.
I do not disagree with the concept of Medical Justice (do a Google search to find out about this), and have dealt with several unreasonable patients (including several educated professionals, interestingly) over my 24 years in private practice. Personally, I have been sued once in my entire 30-year surgical career (in the first few years after I completed my plastic surgery fellowship, by a woman who felt she was "too small" after breast reduction paid for by insurance), so I have...
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