GF> It's no different in this country.  Doctors do not like to say 
GF> anything
GF> negative about a colleague.  Therefore, the patient who has a 
GF> legitimate
GF> complaint goes to see a lawyer instead.  :)
    Patients go to see lawyers for _other_ reasons, too.  One of them is that 
they have paid large amounts of money, spent weeks in recovery, lost much 
work, and have suffered much pain for _nothing_ needlessly...and having a 
second doctor tell the patient that won't compensate him!
    But patients complaining of alleged "malpractice" include more than their 
share of lemons, too.  I've had about a dozen patients want me to sue doctors 
for them, but none had anything approaching a viable case.  More than a few 
were psychos whose stories should be in the National Enquirer.
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