Comments on: Updated and Bumped: CBS 7 – Your Eye on West Texas covering the Winkler County Nurse Trial

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:35:56 +0000

“Having read that (and being quite biased for the nurse in this case) so far all Ms. Mitchell has to worry about are her legal bills.”

What? You physicians act like a trial where YOU’RE the defendant is nothing short of waterboarding. And those are CIVIL trials where your liberty is not at risk, and you’re not even paying the legal bills! Hell, you want us to throw the Constitution out just so your insurer can save a few dollars and you don’t have to give a deposition!

You’re always talking about the “chilling effect” and how medicine suffers because you can’t own up to your mistakes. You don’t think this will have a chilling effect on nurses being willing to report this kind of thing? Really? You guys claim that you get black marks simply for being named in a suit (although physicians with multiple PAID claims continue to work), and you don’t think this nurse will be blackballed?

Physicians frown on other physicians testifying about CLEAR negligence for the plaintiff, and you think this nurse is going to be able to find work easily? Either you’re being disingenuous on one front or the other.

By: Glen

Glen — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:51:01 +0000

Alas, very slow and very poor reporting in the area newspaper.

http://www.oaoa.com/news/nurse-42915-second-county.html

By: CardioNP

CardioNP — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:29:45 +0000

Are you suggesting that our hospital is not professionally staffed?”

Defense replied candidly saying, “The evidence of that is clear.”

Love it! Hope she wins.

By: GruntDoc

GruntDoc — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:44:46 +0000

Figures. I get a link from Instapundit and 3 of the links are busted…

Fixed now. Mea culpa.

By: JW

JW — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:44:20 +0000

Backgrounder link: (see above, fixed).

By: Dean

Dean — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:34:57 +0000

That background doesn’t work. Even trying to remove the extra “http://” it doesn’t work. For some unfathomable reason, it somehow automatically reinserts the extra “http://” after it’s removed. How about just telling us what the background is.

By: brentw

brentw — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:16:55 +0000

Just a heads up…the links to the background story and the trial coverage seem to have an extra “http” in them (i.e. they don’t work)

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