this is disgusting and i emailed them to tell them so....

[prole_for_peace]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/05/national/05DOCT.html?th

[AndyP]

1. I'm not a member

:(

[pintobean]

2. Try this

http://www.majcher.com/nytview.html

[papau]

3. MD's database of folks that sued in the past and their helpers

In Texas, Hire a Lawyer, Forget About a Doctor?
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL

Published: March 5, 2004


OUSTON, March 4 — As domestic security director for 16 north Texas counties, Greg Dawson of Fort Worth has many dealings with doctors and hospitals, preparing for a terrorism emergency he hopes will never come.

So, Mr. Dawson said, he was stunned this week to find that his name had been added to a little-known Internet database for doctors attacking "litigious behavior." His offense: filing a medical malpractice lawsuit against a Fort Worth hospital and doctor over the death of his 39-year-old wife, whose brain tumor was missed, and winning an undisclosed settlement.

For months, an obscure Texas company run by doctors has been operating a Web site, DoctorsKnow Us.com, that compiles and posts the names of plaintiffs, their lawyers and expert witnesses in malpractice lawsuits in Texas and beyond, regardless of the merit of the claim. <snip>

"The sponsors draw no distinctions among cases in what they say is the first effort to use public sources to compile a list of litigants in "predatory lawsuits" that are causing a medical crisis. One couple was put on the list after winning $40.9 million over a botched operation by a drug-dependent surgeon.

Mr. Dawson said he recently had trouble finding a doctor for his son and considered it possibly retaliatory. "I thought how amusing, I'm blacklisted," he said. <snip>

[gulfcoastliberal]

4. What Really Pisses me Off

Is that these people were grievously injured by malpractice and are now blacklisted. The AMA says there's no "ethical problems" with it. But they sure seem to think it's unethical for patients to access the malpractice histories of their members. Lets start a website called "weknowquacks.info" and detail how many times each doctor is sued for malpractice. My father is a doctor and I love him, but I really hate the AMA and the state medical associations. Screw them.