MD comments on Useless Medical Disclaimers - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 March 2007 04:48PM

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Comment author: MD 19 March 2007 06:15:44PM 0 points [-]

As physician advised by malpractice co, those disclaimer are designed for potential law suit. Nowaday, unemployed or underemployed lawyers try to find any excuse to sue.

Without such claim, the procedure will be labeled as uninformed. If infection did happen, the plaintiff would say patient will never go through procedure had patient knew such risk existed. With very unsympathetic jury to most doctors, the verdict most time is againtst doctors/