Think about it. How many times are there threads and posts here conveying the problems patients have getting in to see a doctor of any kind, waiting weeks and even months to get in.
Or how many times people post saying they had to wait 15-20 hours in the E.R. to be seen by a doctor, and in the end they give up and go elsewhere only to find the same kind of wait. Or, they finally give up and just go home and take their chances of not getting screwed up worse by ignoring something that could unknowingly be getting worse by the hour.
Does anybody think the practice, hospital or clinic's other patients can afford to wait days/weeks longer because the clinicians have to go to court and wait to be deposed, and wait at a courthouse for hours and days to testify to the injuries or evidence they saw/collected.....or wait at the courthouse while the attorneys are supposedly going to settle, but then again....they don't....and the clinicians are told "come back next month", to start waiting in lawyers' office and courthouses all over again. Meanwhile, their patients are getting fed up and are posting on TOTV about their disgust with being unable to get a doctor or be seen in an E.R.
It is in part due to unscrupulous lawyers, but they're not all like that, and the good ones are needed.
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