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Would you work outside your scope of practice to save a life?  

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I see your point, but wouldn't you agree that this is the wrong way to practice medicine?

Agreed, I do not think law suits are the best way to practice medicine. Education should be the best way, as you say, to know the negative consequences of an action. If you do not understand something and perform that something on a someone, that would be a bad thing. Thus, law suits keep medics from performing bad medicine, not because they do not know better, but because of fear.

Would it NOT be a safer (for the Pt) practice to be more concerned with how you can negatively change someone's life instead of how much it may cost you later? The fear should be doing harm to your Pt, not how they are going to take control of your life in the next year...

Now, letmesleep, stop dreaming, that only happens in the perfect world ! :lol:

thus lawsuits being fall out of poor Pt care.

Sure, it is a fall out of poor patient care, but, the fear of law suits may prevent poor patient care. A simple example would be doing a procedure that you may know, but do not perform because. Also, you are not comfortable with the procedure because you are not "sure" if it is indicated. The procedure has a very great chance to worsen the outcome of the patient, but, not treating may not be detrimental, yet...

So, ideally, an educated person would know why not to do something, or better yet, know the indications to do something. In the absence of education, law suits may prevent poor patient care.

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Too many what if's, and scenario possibilities/ probabilities to give an absolute answer. And the answer would probably be such a snap decision that it could go either way.

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Too many what if's, and scenario possibilities/ probabilities to give an absolute answer. And the answer would probably be such a snap decision that it could go either way.

Taking the question for face value, I would have to say this is got to be the most profound answer given thus far.

Well written Firedoc.....................

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