Why isn't "tort reform" Bush going after guys like this?

[Archae]

Why the hell is this quack still with a license?

Florida Doctor Could Lose License After Waukesha Woman Dies During Surgery
Expert: Julie Rubenzer Had Respiratory Arrest

SARASOTA, Fla. -- A woman who stopped breathing during breast enlargement surgery and later died was given excessive amounts of anesthesia, an expert testified at a hearing on whether the doctor should keep his license.

Dr. Kurt Dangl, 43, who is not a board-certified anesthesiologist, administered as much as five times the normal amount of the sedative propofol to Julie Rubenzer, who had already been given a host of other sedatives, the expert testified during a hearing before an administrative law judge.

Rubenzer, 38, never woke up after the September 2003 surgery in Dangl's office. Her family in Waukesha, Wis., brought her home and she died in a nursing home there Dec. 26, 2003.

"She was given a lot of drugs up front," said Dr. Joan Christie, an anesthesiologist who reviewed the case and testified Wednesday. "When you put the propofol on top of it, that's when the problems occur."

A second expert, Port St. Lucie plastic surgeon Dr. Donato Viggiano, also agreed with Christie that an "overuse" of medications, and particularly a dangerous amount of propofol, caused Rubenzer to have a respiratory arrest.

http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/news/4061289/detail.html

[liberalhistorian]

1. Because these

fucks are the same docs who donate tons of money they got from the very patients they screw over to the repukes so that they can screw people over even more and make even more money.

[AuntiBush]

2. Because nobody really

cares about human life and death less there is a profitable (insurance, huge corporate law firm, big bucks business) mate involved. Very sadly so and I would know.

[GarySeven]

3. Didn't you know - EVERY lawsuit is "frivolous"

it doesn't matter if a doctor cuts off the wrong leg, or removes the healthy eye, or leaves his BMW toolkit in a patient's chest. If a patient files a suit, it's frivolous - completely without merit. Patients who sue are only interest in jackpots, destroying America, helping Osama.

"You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something: I AM GOD."
-"Dr. Jed Hill"
Malice (1993)

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechmalice.html

[PA Democrat]

4. And this is what that butcher did to an earlier patient

And an investigation into this surgery revealed gross negligence on the part of this doctor. In fact, prosecutors recommended revoking his license, but it was never done. And so an incompetent and dangerous doctor was allowed to continue on and kill Julie Rubenzer.



http://www.abcactionnews.com/stories/2004/02/040209surgery.shtml

[Archae]

5. But Bush wants to limit our rights against these quacks.

Bought and paid for.