‘Gender-affirming care’ practitioners in North Carolina sued

Grant Lefelar – Last week, a 25-year-old detransitioned North Carolina woman filed a lawsuit against those she claims were responsible for convincing her to undergo gender-reassignment medical procedures when she was a minor.

Filed as a civil case in Gaston County Superior Court, Prisha Mosley alleges a team of doctors and counselors regularly “lied” to her by stating that transitioning from female to male would solve her mental health issues. Continue reading

Foundation Of Medical Reality Explodes

“Roughly 2.5 million people die every year in the US, from all causes. So 1 out of every 5 deaths in the US stems directly from the medical system.” – J Rappoport

cartoon_medicalMalpracticeTime and time again, in these pages, I’ve illustrated the fact that reality is being created for us—and that reality is false. It’s a façade.

Waking up to this is vital, if we want to understand the virtual world we live in. We’re inside a matrix.

Here’s a medical study I haven’t cited before: “A new, evidence-based estimate of patient harms,” by JT James (J Patient Saf, Sept. 9, 2013).

The key quote:

“…the true number of premature deaths [in US hospitals] associated with preventable harm to patients was estimated at more than 400,000 per year.”

Putting it bluntly, the US medical system kills 400,000 hospital patients every year. Continue reading

Charles Hugh Smith ~ Is Collapse The Only Real “Fix” To Our Healthcare And Legal Systems?

“. . . most insurance companies have completely abandoned their fiduciary duties to both their insureds and to injured parties. Every single claim is treated as fraudulent. The discretion of the individual insurance adjuster has been largely removed, and they have a rigid set of guidelines set not on the actual injuries, but on a desire to maximize profit.” Randy

A few days ago I discussed the overlap of two bankrupt systems: Healthcare (a.k.a. Sickcare) and our legal system–malpractice. Today we hear from two correspondents on possible fixes to malpractice: Ishabaka (M.D.) and Randy, who combines both legal and medical expertise in his family: he is an attorney and his wife is a physician.

First up: Ishabaka (M.D.), a physician who has practiced medicine in both Canada and the U.S. and served an an emergency room doctor for many years.

My solution would be – first – a no fault system, where anyone who suffers an injury as a result of contact with the health care system is compensated a REASONABLE amount – like the workers compensation system.

One side of the story I didn’t mention is I have seen a case of clear malpractice where the suit was WON by the two doctors who prescribed naproxen to a patient for gout, when it was known he had a giant stomach ulcer. Every third year medical student knows naproxen can cause ulcers to bleed. The man woke up in the middle of the night with a massive bleed from his ulcer, and died. The thing is, there is an alternative treatment for gout – colchicine – that is perfectly safe in stomach ulcer patients, and should have been prescribed.

The second half of the system would be a really good review mechanism – I’d base it on the F.A.A. – that reviews what happened when a patient suffers injury due to contact with the health care system. I think in many instances, it would be found nothing could have helped – people get sick and die. I had a friend give a woman with no history of penicillin allergy a shot of penicillin for gonorrhea and she had a severe allergic reaction and died at age 21 – in spite of textbook treatment for severe drug allergy. Stuff happens. Continue reading

Charles Hugh Smith ~ It’s Not Just Healthcare That’s Bankrupt – It’s Our Legal System, Too

“. . . any system that accuses 99% of its practitioners of gross incompetence is deeply flawed, rife with injustice and bloated by needless waste and stress.” C H Smith

CharlesHughSmithWhat can you say about a “healthcare” system in which 99% of all physicians will face a malpractice claim in their careers? According to Malpractice Risk According to Physician Specialty (The New England Journal of Medicine), “It was estimated that by the age of 65 years, 75% of physicians in low-risk specialties had faced a malpractice claim, as compared with 99% of physicians in high-risk specialties.”

Longtime correspondent Ishabaka (M.D.) provides some context:

“A little legal education is necessary to understand malpractice:For a malpractice suit to be successful, there are five necessary things:

1. A duty to treat – there has to be an established doctor – patient relationship. A typical example would be someone who corners me at a party and asks me what I think is causing their abdominal pain. I give them my card, ask them to make an appointment for a check-up, they never do, and the pain turns out to be fatal cancer – in that case I had no duty to treat.

2. Failure to practice the standard of care – note – this does not mean the BEST care in the world – it means the average, or median standard of care. Continue reading