Roy,
You are a very wise man. I'm so glad you are on this board. You make some wonderful points, including getting "free" legal advice from your malpractice carrier. In the end they really have a vested interest in your walking a straight line. If you can call it free, we all certainly have paid dearly for it, in most cases.
And again this all relates back to that other CHITT and civil liberties thread of protecting our patients right to privacy. It is amazing just how willing most people give in to these requests without a second thought to why.
Joe, in NYS now there is the nobody gets off of jury duty garbage. There was even a photo op of Mayor Blumberg going to Jury duty recently. They won't even allow a Dr to take her pager and cell phone in with her. As I said to Nancy, we've got these friends, the wife is an Alzheimer's Neuro Doc that Nancy referes to and the husband is the head of transplant surgery here at SUNY Upstate, "Well the good news is we found a donor for you for that multi-organ transplant you needed, but the bad news is we can't get thru to your doc, the head of transplant surgery to do the procedure because he is being held incommunicato (did I butcher that word, my spelling stinks) at jury duty. But his resident will be glad to do it for you...." What horseCHITT. Really.
Anyway, Roy you keep right on reminding all of us as well as the good work on the behalf of your patients. I've got to go do a last minute plumbing repair in my bsmt to the kitchen hot water, pssssssss.
Have a great weekend everybody.
Paul
