Re: Hmmmm... A new book/Ever considered legal action?

[Guest guest]

> Ever Considered Legal Action?

>

> If anyone knows (Carla?) what are current legal hurdles that impede

> our ability to seek legal remedy?

Here's the biggest legal hurdle yet.... " who " would you sue?

Individual cases of malpractice can, of course, be brought to

action...but that wouldn't (hasn't yet, anyway) move a mountain of

history nor would it motivate 40,000 other gyns to sit up and take notice.

Been to the ACOG website lately? They are all about CYA. Check out

their pages recently put online in regard to informed consent, their

position statement and press releases on the hysterectomy and

alternatives, etc. They've done due diligence -- in the 'public eye,'

that is -- towards being legally without any liability whatsoever for

anything a single (or the masses) of ACOG members choose to do " out

there. "

So, if you want to get docs to sit up and take notice....who do you

sue? Where does the class action lie? Insurance providers? Other

medical professional groups? (hmmmm....the One Kilo Club is one I'd

like to see taken " down " a notch....) Medical schools? (Just what

ARE they teaching docs these days....)....

It's not an easy question to find an appropriate answer to, that's for

certain.....

Carla