HealthMatters 2010
tary medicine should have a way. It does not have an
very key role in our future. In- effect on doctors’ practices. I
tegrative medicine is real- do not think that most suits
ly based on the healthy phys- are frivolous.
iology of the body. There are Rheumatologist: I can think of
many things we can do to maybe two situations where
keep healthy, including diet I felt I had to do something
and exercise. There is good ev- to protect myself from a law-
idence for the benefits of ome- suit. But on a day-to-day basis,
ga-3 fatty acids, green tea and I never think about it. I don’t
vitamin D for heart health, have enough time in my day
cancer prevention and to fight to worry about lawsuits. I just
inflammation. have to be the best doctor I can
be and let the chips fall where
they may. If I get sued, presum-
Are you ever offended when
ably I’ve done the best I can do,
a patient asks for a second
and the rest is for the lawyers
opinion?
to sift out.
Internist/General Practitioner: OB/GYN: It’s definitely driven
Never. It is something every up the cost of health care. The
patient should feel entitled effect has been negative, be-
to and be very open about cause instead of doing what’s
getting. best, people are doing what’s
OB/GYN: If you put yourself safest. People today feel that
in a patient’s shoes and they’re if something goes wrong, it’s
in a life crisis and they’re somebody’s fault. Sometimes
not comfortable with where people get sick and sometimes
they’re at, it’s important they people die and it isn’t necessari-
DR. BRIAN
BUGGY
go check with someone else. ly people’s fault.
Top-rated
I would prefer they get a sec-
infectious
ond opinion than have me
disease
What’s the worst ethical
specialist.
do something they think isn’t
right.
lapse you’ve ever seen?
Internist/General Practitioner: someone get turned away be- nology, but without the sup-
The worst have mainly been cause they didn’t have the port of friends and family, all
Has the rise in malpractice
in emergency situations. The right kind of insurance. the medications and techno-
suits made you a better or
emergency room is a very dif- OB/GYN: Fortunately I’ve logical developments are of-
worse doctor?
ficult place. You have to devel- worked with people with ten useless.
Internist/General Practitioner: op a sense of “sick or not sick” integrity. I’ve seen more medi- Emergency Medicine: On a
There are decisions made, tests and you’ve got to make that cal mistakes than ethical laps- day-to-day basis I see the best
undertaken, that might not be decision right away because es. The worst ethical lapse I’ve strangers can do for each oth-
very high-yield. minutes count. And some- seen is an impaired physician, er and the worst. Fortunate-
Emergency Medicine: It en- times when people are moved someone under the influence of ly, 99.9 percent of the time
ters into a lot of doctors’ evalu- into the nonsick category, alcohol or drugs, try and take it’s the best. I had a moth-
ations and workups. The stats there is not always the follow- care of a patient. That is abso- er one night who was very
are the stats: We’re all going to through there needs to be. lutely unethical. ill and probably not going to
get sued and it’s going to be a Rheumatologist: I think there survive. I went out to find the
miserable experience. I think are disadvantaged people who daughter and she was very up-
younger doctors are more do not get the same respect
What’s the most amazing
set. She grabbed me and said,
in tune with ordering a lot people with a higher socio-
thing you’ve ever witnessed?
“Are you the lady who gives
of stuff because they’re con- economic status get. There are Cardiologist: The most amaz- the bad news?” She was crying
cerned with being sued. Older various ways that occurs. It ing thing I see is the way fam- and very distraught, and an-
doctors with a lot more clini- may be denying certain insur- ilies come together around other gentleman could see this
cal experience feel much more ances, because some don’t pay a sick patient and how im- going on and he got up, got a
comfortable. as well as others. There are portant it is to have the sup- box of Kleenex and brought
Cardiologist: I honestly don’t doctors in this city who are port of people who love us it to the lady and put his arm
think it has affected us a lot. refusing to see Medicare pa- in a time of illness. We see around her. It’s really amazing
The malpractice system does tients. What’s the worst ethi- many miraculous things every how total strangers will com-
not improve medicine in any cal lapse I’ve seen here? I saw day that we ascribe to tech- fort each other. ■
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