All those legalese hold-harmless clauses in those forms to prevent the doctors from being responsible should be replaced with a simple: "We're just practicing, so it's not our fault if someone dies, loses the wrong appendage, or OD's on the wrong medicine. Sign below to give us carte blanche to run amuck." They must have read the doctors in Sumeria, who would lose what ever body part their patient lost, if the "fix" didn't work. <g> (They must not have had lawyers yet...) Jan G. ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Sue & Bobby Bates" <bsbates@netease.net> Reply-To: "Sue & Bobby Bates" <bsbates@netease.net> To: BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BSChat] Re: Meds Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 11:53:12 -0500 "J. Garland" <zippywebgenie@hotmail.com> wrote.... >.... They've been building their "we're almost God" reputation > ever since the AMA was formed. < That's probably quite true, Jan. I try to put it in the perspective of how good can any of them be if they are still having to 'practice' medicine? ;-)) *wink* Best, SueB ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== Creative use of your delete key is encouraged. If you disagree with the subject, CHANGE the subject. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com